Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…

What was the tortoise's job in all this, sort of?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: job, this

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 job	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 job	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 job	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 tortoise	case
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 this	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 this	det:predet
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 job	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 job	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 sort	fixed
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 job	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tortoise's job		this		sort nmod	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 · ✓ the right answer

Giving him a lift home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 home	det
4	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 home	compound
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		a lift home	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient home=Theme

Option 2

A ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ride	det
2	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Taking him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund			him = he				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Carrying him to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carrying	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		him = he		the sea			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=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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