Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…

Did he reckon he'd only been away a few days, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: few days

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckon	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 days	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 days	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	11 days	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 days	cop
8	away	away	ADV	_	11 days	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 days	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckon	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 reckon	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	he	a few days				away 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

Nah, he reckoned it was three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 days	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 days	cop
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	three days					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 days	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, he thought about a fortnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 fortnight	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fortnight	det
7	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he				fortnight		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, four or five days, he reckoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 five	cc
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	conj
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reckoned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reckoned	nsubj
9	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he				day		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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