Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Wait, where did the old man go hunting for her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old man · What happens: wait, go, hunt

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
9	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 go	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hunting	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support	the old man		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hunt	gerund	the old man not said here	for her = she	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

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

Through the fields and village streets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 fields	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 streets	cc
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 streets	compound
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fields	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Over the hills and through the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hills	det
3	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 woods	cc
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hills	conj

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

Option 3

Near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Near	near	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Across the valley and up the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Across	across	ADP	_	3 valley	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 valley	det
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hill	cc
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 valley	conj

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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