Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…
Did the fish actually dance at the party?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: dance · To what, where: party
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dance | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 dance | advmod |
| 5 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 party | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dance | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dance | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · do-support | the fish | the party | actually property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at party=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
Yeah, red fins and blue tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fins | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fins | punct |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fins | amod |
| 4 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fins | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, silver scales and golden tails, dancing all night long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 scales | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scales | punct |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scales | compound |
| 4 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scales | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dancing | punct |
| 9 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 scales | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dancing | obj |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 dancing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | gerund | silver scales and golden tails not said here | night | long property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, they only swam around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 swam | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim around | past | they | around property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, silver scales and golden tails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 scales | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scales | punct |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scales | compound |
| 4 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tails | cc |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tails | amod |
| 7 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scales | conj |
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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