Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…
the tortoise wants him to come to the palace, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tortoise, him · What happens: want, come · To what, where: him, palace
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 palace | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 come | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the tortoise | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | him = he not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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
yeah, the Sea King's place, under the waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 place | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | compound |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waves | punct |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 waves | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waves | det |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 place | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the Sea King's place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 place | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | compound |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, the Sea King's place, way down deep in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 place | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | compound |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | appos |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 deep | advmod |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deep | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, the dragon's gaff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 gaff | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gaff | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gaff | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 dragon | case |
| 6 | gaff | gaff | 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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