Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

how did the old wife find the sparrow's house again?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old wife · What happens: find · To what, where: house

This is test 6 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 find	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
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	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sparrow	det
8	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sparrow	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	the old wife	the sparrow's house			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic

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

her husband described the way to her

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	3 described	nsubj
3	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 described	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 described	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past	her husband	the way	her = she				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Theme to she=be'

Option 2

she followed the path her husband had described to her carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 described	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 described	aux
8	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 path	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 described	obj
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 followed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	she	the path				carefully property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
2	describe	past · perfect · passive	the path not said here	her husband					tree rules

Option 3

she guessed by following the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 following	mark
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 guessed	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	she						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund	she not said here	the river					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she sent a servant ahead to scout the path and find the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scout	mark
7	scout	scout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scout	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scout	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	she	a servant	ahead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
2	scout	to-infinitive	she not said here	the path		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Location
3	find	infinitive	she not said here	the house		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic

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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