Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Bruh, how did the granddad know something was up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: granddad · What happens: know · To what, where: something

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 know	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 granddad	det
6	granddad	granddad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 know	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 up	cop
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 something	compound
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the granddad	something					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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

She didn't come out to meet him at the gate like she always did before

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meet	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 did	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 did	advmod
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meet	advcl
16	before	before	ADV	_	15 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not come out	past · do-support	She			out property	tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he	the gate		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	do	past	she			always, before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The house was quiet when he came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the house					quiet property	tree rules
2	come back	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She wasn't at the gate when he got home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 gate	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She			the gate			tree rules
2	get	past	he					home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

His wife looked guilty and the sparrow never flew out to greet him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sparrow	det
7	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 flew	advmod
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 flew	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 greet	mark
12	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 flew	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 greet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	His wife		guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not fly out	past	the sparrow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the sparrow not said here	sparrow		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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