Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Dead serious, what was the dance called?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, call · To what, where: serious dance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serious	amod
2	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dance	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dance	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 dance	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dance	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the serious dance					tree rules
2	call	participle		the serious dance not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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

The traditional Sparrow's dance, the famous suzume-odori of the bamboo grove

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sparrow	det
2	traditional	traditional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sparrow	amod
3	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dance	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Sparrow	case
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 odori	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 odori	det
8	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 odori	amod
9	suzume	suzume	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 odori	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 suzume	punct
11	odori	odori	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 grove	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grove	det
14	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grove	compound
15	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 odori	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance		the traditional Sparrow						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The Sparrow's song, the suzume-uta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sparrow	det
2	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sparrow	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 uta	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 uta	det
7	suzume	suzume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 uta	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 suzume	punct
9	uta	uta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		the Sparrow						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Sparrow's dance, the suzume-odori

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sparrow	det
2	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dance	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sparrow	case
4	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 odori	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 odori	det
7	suzume	suzume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 odori	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 suzume	punct
9	odori	odori	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance		the Sparrow						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Sparrow's dance, the suzume-odori, performed by all the fairies at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sparrow	det
2	Sparrow	Sparrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dance	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sparrow	case
4	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 performed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 odori	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 odori	det
7	suzume	suzume	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 odori	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 suzume	punct
9	odori	odori	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 performed	punct
11	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 fairies	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fairies	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairies	det
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 performed	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 performed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	participle	the Sparrow's dance and the suzume odori					by all fairies	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance		the Sparrow						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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