Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…
what did the old man feed his bird?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: feed · To what, where: bird
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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 | 6 feed | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feed | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | nsubj |
| 6 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bird | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 feed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · do-support | the old man | man's bird | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient bird=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
tit-bits from his supper, saved in a little bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tit | tit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bits | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 tit | punct |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 supper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bits | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saved | punct |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bits | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bowl | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bowl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bowl | amod |
| 12 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | participle | tit bits from his supper not said here | a little bowl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
tit-bits from his supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tit | tit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bits | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 tit | punct |
| 3 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 supper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bits | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the best rice and fish from the Dragon King's table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rice | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 rice | amod |
| 3 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fish | cc |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rice | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 table | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
millet from the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 field | det |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 millet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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