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title: So who was the mermaid's crush, then? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: So who was the mermaid's crush, then? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

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So who was the mermaid's crush, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** crush

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» 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/879-pg27200-part90/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t2:1
# text = So who was the mermaid's crush, then?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	crush	crush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mermaid's crush |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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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The fine sea-captain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t2:o1:1
# text = The fine sea-captain
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The charming prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t2:o2:1
# text = The charming prince
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t2:o3:1
# text = The prince
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The brave young sailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:879-pg27200-part90:t2:o4:1
# text = The brave young sailor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sailor	sailor	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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