Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden…
Okay so what did the hare smooth down with his paw?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: smooth down
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1350 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden Boy, part 1: a widow hides her baby in the mountains, and the animals hold a wrestling match» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 7 smooth | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 smooth | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 smooth | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 smooth | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hare | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smooth | nsubj |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 smooth | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 paw | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paw | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smooth | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 smooth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth down | past · do-support | the hare | with hare's paw; down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient with paw=Instrument |
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
His long ears, which he had been proud of all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proud | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 proud | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 proud | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proud | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 proud | cop |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proud | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | His long ears | day | proud property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His long ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
His white coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coat | amod |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His long ears and his fluffy white tail before the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tail | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tail | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tail | amod |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ears | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 start | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 start | det |
| 11 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tail | nmod |
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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