Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

wait, why'd Hidesato even go out? was he just bored af?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hidesato · What happens: wait, go out, be · To what, where: bored af

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 af	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Hidesato	punct
5	Hidesato	Hidesato	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 af	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 af	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 af	advmod
13	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 af	amod
14	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 af	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	infinitive	Hidesato		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Hidesato	bored af	tree rules

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

he heard the dragon had been crying for help all week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crying	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crying	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 crying	aux
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 heard	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he				week	for help	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past · perfect · progressive	the dragon						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he was out hunting a deer for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	aux
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	he	a deer				for dinner	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent deer=Location for dinner=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he wanted to find some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	some food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he couldn't stand sitting around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stand	xcomp
6	around	around	ADV	_	4 stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand around	could	he					around property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sit around	gerund	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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