Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…

Did the fish guards bow to him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish guards · What happens: do, bow · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	compound
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bow	nsubj
5	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bow	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bow	present	the fish guards		him = he				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot

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

Yeah, they bowed low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	nsubj
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	they					low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, just nods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 nods	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 nods	advmod
4	nods	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	present							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, loads of bows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 bows	case
5	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they just waved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 waved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waved	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 waved	advmod
5	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	they						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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