Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…

next morning, who's calling his name?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: next morning, his · What happens: call, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1345 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman is frightened and punished, and Urashima frees a tortoise and is invited under the sea» 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	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 calling	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 calling	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calling	aux
6	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 morning	acl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calling	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	next morning	his name					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

his mum, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obvs	punct
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mum	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old man, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 obvs	punct
5	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 man	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the tortoise, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obvs	punct
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tortoise	conj

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

Option 4

the tortoise, obvs, the one he let go earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obvs	punct
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tortoise	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoise	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	the tortoise and obvs and the one						tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the tortoise and obvs and the one not said here					early property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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