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title: Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

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Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mermaid · **What happens:** chill, spy

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/878-pg27200-part89/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t6:1
# text = Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chill	chill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | past · do-support | the mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spy** | to-infinitive | the mermaid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the prince | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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behind the tall stone wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t6:o1:1
# text = behind the tall stone wall
1	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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in the cool shade of the palm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t6:o2:1
# text = in the cool shade of the palm
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shade** |  |  | the palm |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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under the boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t6:o3:1
# text = under the boat
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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in the marble balcony shadow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t6:o4:1
# text = in the marble balcony shadow
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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