Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…
Wait, did the tortoise really grow huge, or was Urashima just seeing things?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Urashima · What happens: wait, do, grow, see · To what, where: tortoise, things
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1346 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima rides a tortoise to the Sea King's palace, is welcomed, and is married to the Princess.» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tortoise | det |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 grow | advmod |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grow | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeing | aux |
| 12 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 seeing | nsubj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seeing | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you not said here | the tortoise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | you not said here | huge property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past · progressive | Urashima | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It really grew huge, mate
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 | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mate | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 huge | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | It | huge mate | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mate=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, just seeing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 seeing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 seeing | advmod |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Yeah, it got massive, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mate | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 massive | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | it | massive mate | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nah, it stayed tiny, honestly mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honestly | punct |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | mate vocative; honestly, tiny property | vn exist-47.1 «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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