Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Mate, what was the fairy house like inside?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: fairy house

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 house	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 house	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 inside	case
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	7 house	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the fairy house	the fairy house					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

Whitest polished wood with silky cushions and a golden altar in the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitest	white	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wood	amod
2	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cushions	case
5	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cushions	amod
6	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wood	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 altar	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 altar	det
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 altar	amod
10	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cushions	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 altar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pale stone and golden thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stone	amod
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thread	cc
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thread	amod
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Whitest wood and silky cushions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whitest	white	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cushions	cc
4	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cushions	amod
5	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wood	conj

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

Option 4

Dark wood walls hung with lanterns and many rich silk cushions for guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walls	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walls	compound
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 walls	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lanterns	case
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cushions	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cushions	amod
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cushions	amod
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cushions	compound
11	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lanterns	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 guests	case
13	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle		Dark wood walls not said here				with lanterns and many rich silk cushions; for guests	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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