Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Be honest, what did the old lady say the bird did wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old lady, bird · What happens: be, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 did	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	honest property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the old lady		tree rules
3	do	past	the bird	wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Ate all her starch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 starch	det:predet
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 starch	nmod:poss
4	starch	starch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		her starch					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starch=Patient

Option 2

Broke pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pots	amod
2	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Broke her clay bowls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bowls	nmod:poss
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowls	compound
4	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		her clay bowls					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Patient

Option 4

Stole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stole	stole	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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