Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…
Did the old man think he was a ghost, bro?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, man · What happens: think, be · To what, where: ghost · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | 5 think | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ghost | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ghost | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ghost | det |
| 9 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bro | punct |
| 11 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ghost | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · do-support | the old man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | man | a ghost and bro | 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
Yeah, till he kicked the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kicked | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 kicked | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kicked | nsubj |
| 5 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | he | the ground | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ground=Patient |
Option 2
Nah, not really, he just stamped his feet and then he was happy
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 stamped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stamped | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stamped | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 stamped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stamped | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stamped | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 stamped | advmod |
| 8 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stamped | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happy | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 happy | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happy | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stamped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stamp | past | he | his feet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | he | then | happy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, at first, but then he stamped his feet and that sorted it out
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 stamped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamped | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 stamped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamped | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stamped | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stamped | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stamped | nsubj |
| 9 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stamped | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sorted | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sorted | nsubj |
| 14 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stamped | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sorted | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sorted | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | he | his feet | then | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme at first=Destination | |||
| 2 | sort out | past | that | it | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, till he stamped his feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stamped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stamped | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 stamped | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stamped | nsubj |
| 5 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stamped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | he | his feet | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
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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