Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…
that voice sounds mad clear, dunno how
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: voice · What happens: sound
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clear | amod |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounds | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dunno | punct |
| 7 | dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 3 sounds | discourse |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dunno | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | that voice | clear property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
it's like a bell that's been rung for ages, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bell | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bell | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bell | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 rung | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rung | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 rung | aux |
| 9 | rung | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bell | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ages | case |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proper | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bell | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | like a bell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ring | present · progressive | a bell | for ages | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
it's like a bell, proper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bell | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bell | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bell | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 proper | punct |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bell | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | like a bell | tree rules |
Option 3
it's like a horn, dunno
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 horn | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 horn | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horn | det |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dunno | punct |
| 7 | dunno | dunno | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horn | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | like a horn and dunno | tree rules |
Option 4
it's like a whistle, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whistle | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whistle | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 whistle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whistle | det |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whistle | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | like a whistle and innit | tree rules |
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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