--- title: innit the prince saved the mermaid or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics description: innit the prince saved the mermaid or what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/881-pg27200-part92/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/881-pg27200-part92/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re… innit the prince saved the mermaid or what? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, prince · **What happens:** innit, save · **To what, where:** mermaid This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» 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/881-pg27200-part92/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t4:1 # text = innit the prince saved the mermaid or what? 1 innit innit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **save** | past | the prince | the mermaid | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme | 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 {#o1} No, he didn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t4:o1:1 # text = No, he didn't 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past | he | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, she saved him from the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t4:o2:1 # text = No, she saved him from the sea 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | past | she | him *= he* | | the sea | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from sea=Source | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, he saved her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t4:o3:1 # text = Yeah, he saved her 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | past | he | her *= she* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, he saved her from the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:881-pg27200-part92:t4:o4:1 # text = Yeah, he saved her from the sea 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | past | he | her *= she* | | the sea | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from sea=Source | **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. 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