Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

what was the old wife so hooked on that she forgot everything else?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old wife, wife · What happens: be, hook, forget · To what, where: old wife, everything

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hooked	advmod
7	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wife	acl
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 forgot	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 forgot	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgot	nsubj
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hooked	advcl
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 forgot	obj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 everything	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the old wife		tree rules
2	hook	participle		the old wife not said here	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	forget	past	wife	everything	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 · ✓ the right answer

the big box and all the stuff in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stuff	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stuff	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stuff	det
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuff	nmod

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

Option 2

the shiny box and its coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coins	cc
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coins	nmod:poss
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 box	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		its = it						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the sparrow and her own kids

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kids	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kids	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sparrow	conj

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

Option 4

her husband

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	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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