Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…
Did Urashima bow to the Princess straight away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Urashima · What happens: bow
This is test 7 · ★ 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bow | aux |
| 2 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bow | nsubj |
| 3 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bow | obl |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 bow | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past · do-support | Urashima | to the Princess; away property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to princess=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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he bowed really 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 low | advmod |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | he | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, he just stared, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stared | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stared | advmod |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stared | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | he | mate vocative | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he just stood gobsmacked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 gobsmacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gobsmacked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 gobsmacked | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gobsmacked | aux:pass |
| 6 | gobsmacked | gobsmack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobsmack | past · passive | he | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, he bowed right away, mate
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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 bowed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | he | mate vocative; away property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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