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

Ngl, was the old lady sorry after she chopped the tongue off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be, chop off · To what, where: tongue

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sorry	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorry	obl:unmarked
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 chopped	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chopped	nsubj
10	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tongue	det
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chopped	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	10 chopped	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						Ngl vocative; the old lady obl:unmarked; sorry property	tree rules
2	chop off	past	Ngl	the tongue					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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

Yes, she felt bad about it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	obl
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she					about it; bad, late property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Not really, she just wanted food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wanted	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past	she	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was still mad and didn't care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 care	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 care	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 care	advmod
10	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she				still	mad property	tree rules
2	not care	past · do-support	she not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

No, she was angry at the bird and kept on scolding everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 angry	conj
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 scolding	mark
12	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 kept	advcl
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 scolding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		at the bird; angry property	tree rules
2	keep	participle	she not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scold	gerund	she not said here	everyone		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=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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