Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden…

Lol, how strong was Kintaro at eight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Kintaro

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Kintaro	cop
6	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strong	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 eight	case
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 strong	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Kintaro					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 · ← Mova's choice

Strong enough to lift big rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lift	mark
4	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocks	amod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lift	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	to-infinitive		big rocks					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Strong enough to chop trees fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chop	mark
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chop	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 chop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	to-infinitive		trees				fast property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 3

Strong enough to chop down trees faster than all the woodcutters in the village combined

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chop	mark
4	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 chop	compound:prt
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faster	obl:unmarked
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 chop	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 woodcutters	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 woodcutters	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woodcutters	det
11	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 faster	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 woodcutters	nmod
15	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 village	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	to-infinitive						fast property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	combine	participle		the village not said here					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Strong enough to wrestle a bear and win the match against all the animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wrestle	mark
4	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrestle	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 win	cc
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrestle	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 match	det
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 win	obj
11	against	against	ADP	_	14 animals	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 animals	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 animals	det
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 match	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrestle	to-infinitive		a bear					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent
2	win	present		the match				against all animals	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

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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