Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…
Wait, what's a vassal anyway?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | _ | 6 vassal | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 vassal | obl |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vassal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vassal | det |
| 6 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wait | conj |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 vassal | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | 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 | is | present | you not said here | anyway, vassal property | tree rules |
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
A powerful noble who rules over many lands and seas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noble | det |
| 2 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noble | amod |
| 3 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rules | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 rules | nsubj |
| 5 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 lands | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lands | amod |
| 8 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rules | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seas | cc |
| 10 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lands | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A servant or follower, like a helper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 follower | cc |
| 4 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servant | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 helper | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 helper | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 helper | det |
| 8 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servant | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A royal guard who protects the palace gates and princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guard | amod |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 protects | nsubj |
| 5 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 guard | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gates | compound |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protects | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 princess | cc |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gates | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | a royal guard | the palace gates and princess | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
Option 4
A noble ruler of a large kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ruler | amod |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kingdom | amod |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ruler | nmod |
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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