Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…
Lol, so the sparrow was just a regular bird, right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sparrow · What happens: be · To what, where: regular bird
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 10 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 bird | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sparrow | det |
| 5 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bird | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 bird | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 9 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 10 bird | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sparrow | a regular bird | 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
Yes, a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, she was a pet crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 crow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 crow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crow | det |
| 6 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crow | compound |
| 7 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a pet crow | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she was a normal sparrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 sparrow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sparrow | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sparrow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sparrow | det |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sparrow | amod |
| 7 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a normal sparrow | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she was a fairy in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 fairy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fairy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fairy | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 disguise | case |
| 8 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | she | a fairy | disguise | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1343-pg4018-part3/t4/