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

them boys are being well mean to that tortoise, no cap

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them, boys · What happens: boy, mean

This is test 5 · ★ 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 boys	nsubj
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 mean	nsubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tortoise	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tortoise	det
9	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tortoise	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boy		them = they						tree rules
2	mean	present	boys					to that tortoise; well property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to tortoise=Attribute

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

they're having a laugh, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 having	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laugh	det
5	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · progressive	they	a laugh				innit obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient

Option 2

they're well up to no good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 up	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 up	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 up	fixed
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 good	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 up	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they're proper gutting it and laughing their heads off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gutting	aux
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gutting	amod
4	gutting	gut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laughing	cc
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gutting	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laughing	obj
10	off	off	ADV	_	7 laughing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	present · progressive	they	it					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	laugh off	gerund	they not said here	their heads				off property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they're proper gutting it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proper	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proper	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	gutting	gut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 proper	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					proper property	tree rules
2	gut	gerund	they not said here	it					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

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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