Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

Bro, what did Kintaro promise to do for his mum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kintaro · What happens: promise, do · To what, where: Bro

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1351 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestler, and a general's offer» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
5	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nsubj
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bro	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 mum	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Kintaro	Bro					vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kintaro not said here					for Kintaro's mum	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Bring her gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bring	obj
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	gold	her = she				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination gold=Theme

Option 2

Visit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 3

Stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Build her a home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Build	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 home	det
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	imperative	you not said here	a home	her = she				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary home=Product

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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