Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

what did the cooking pot need to cook stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cooking pot · What happens: do, need, cook · To what, where: stuff

This is test 14 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pot	det
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pot	compound
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cook	mark
8	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	need	present	the cooking pot		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cooking pot not said here	stuff	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

no firing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 firing	det
2	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 firing	nmod

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

Option 2

a little fire under it, and then it cooked the rice on its own

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooked	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fire	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cooked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cooked	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cooked	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cooked	nsubj
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rice	det
12	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooked	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	a little fire under it	the rice			then	on fire's own	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rice=Patient on own=Instrument

Option 3

no flames needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flames	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	participle		no flames not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

no firing at all, so the cook never needed wood or coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 firing	det
2	firing	firing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needed	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 firing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cook	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 cook	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cook	det
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 firing	conj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 needed	advmod
10	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needed	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 coal	cc
13	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	past	no firing at all and the cook	wood or coal					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=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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