Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

who dances, the goldfish or the carp?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1341 «Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warrior walks over a sleeping dragon and meets the Dragon King» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 dances	nsubj
2	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 goldfish	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goldfish	det
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dances	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 carp	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 carp	det
8	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goldfish	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 dances	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present		the goldfish or the carp					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goldfish=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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

ten goldfish dancers in silk robes and gold fans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dancers	nummod
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancers	compound
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 robes	case
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 robes	compound
6	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dancers	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fans	cc
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fans	compound
9	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 robes	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ten goldfish dancers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dancers	nummod
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancers	compound
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

ten turtle dancers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dancers	nummod
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dancers	compound
3	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

ten silver eels dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 eels	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eels	compound
3	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 eels	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund	ten silver eels not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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