Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…
when she opened the box, what jumped out first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, box · What happens: open, jump out · To what, where: box
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 box | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 jumped | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | she | the box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump out | past | the box | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 demon with two eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 demon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a demon with one huge eye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eye | nummod |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eye | amod |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a horrible demon with one huge eye and sharp teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 demon | det |
| 2 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 demon | amod |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eye | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eye | nummod |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eye | amod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demon | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 teeth | cc |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teeth | amod |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eye | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a crowd of demons and snakes with glowing red eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 demons | case |
| 4 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crowd | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 snakes | cc |
| 6 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 demons | conj |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 glowing | mark |
| 8 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 crowd | acl |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glowing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | a crowd of demons and snakes not said here | red eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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/1344-pg4018-part4/t9/