Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Bro, how did the sparrow get to talk again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, get, talk · To what, where: sparrow

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sparrow	det
6	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 talk	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past		the sparrow		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Eventuality
2	get	present	Bro			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	talk	to-infinitive	Bro not said here		again	vn talk-37.5 «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

A new voice came from her beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 beak	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beak	nmod:poss
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a new voice			voice's beak			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from beak=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A brand new tongue grew back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
2	brand	brand	ADV	_	3 new	advmod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tongue	amod
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	past	a new tongue						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Her old tongue came back again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongue	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tongue	amod
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Her old tongue				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The old man's magic healed her and a shiny new tongue grew back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magic	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healed	nsubj
6	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 healed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tongue	det
10	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tongue	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tongue	amod
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 healed	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	past	the old man's magic	her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	grow back	past	a shiny new tongue						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1343-pg4018-part3/t6/