Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…
Hang on, what did the man say the village wrote down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, man, village · What happens: hang on, say, write down · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1347 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the box and grows old» 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 | Hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 Hang | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hang | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | nsubj |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 wrote | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang on | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | write down | past | the village | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Urashima's whole story, written in the chronicles of the province
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Urashima | case |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 written | punct |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chronicles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chronicles | det |
| 9 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 written | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 province | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 province | det |
| 12 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chronicles | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | Urashima's whole story not said here | the chronicles of the province | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chronicle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | chronicle | the province | nom chronicle «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Urashima's story, in the chronicles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Urashima | case |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chronicles | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chronicles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chronicles | det |
| 7 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 story | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Urashima's tale in the old records
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Urashima | case |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 records | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 records | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 records | amod |
| 7 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tale | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | Urashima | the old records | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Option 4
The chronicles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chronicles | det |
| 2 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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