Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

what's the big ask, he wants the guy to do what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, guy · What happens: be, want, do · To what, where: big ask, guy

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 ask	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ask	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ask	amod
5	ask	ask	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guy	det
10	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wants	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the big ask	tree rules
2	want	present	he	the guy	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the guy not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

bring back the centipede's head as proof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 bring	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 centipede	det
4	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 centipede	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 proof	case
8	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	imperative	you not said here	the centipede's head				as proof	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kill the centipede

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centipede	det
3	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	the centipede					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centipede=Theme

Option 3

slay the giant toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toad	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	imperative	you not said here	the giant toad					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient

Option 4

go up the mountain and kill the giant centipede

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 go	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mountain	det
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kill	cc
6	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 centipede	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 centipede	amod
9	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	imperative	you not said here	the mountain					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent
2	kill	infinitive	you not said here	the giant centipede					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centipede=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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