Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

who's the cross-patch wife in that story?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cross-patch wife · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 who	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	cross-patch	cross-patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	compound
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 who	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cross-patch wife in that story						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

the neighbor's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 neighbor	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the sparrow's owner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owner	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sparrow	case
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the old man's wife, who grumbles and scolds all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grumbles	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grumbles	nsubj
8	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scolds	cc
10	scolds	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grumbles	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scolds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	the old man's wife						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scold	present	the old man's wife not said here				day		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the old man's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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