Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…
Nah for real, what did the general look for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: general · What happens: do, look
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 real | discourse |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 real | case |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 general | det |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 look | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | the general | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 young boys for his army in the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 army | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 army | nmod:poss |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boys | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 army | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Brave men for the castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Strong boys for his army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boys | amod |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 army | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 army | nmod:poss |
| 5 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Boys with great strength to serve in his household's army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 strength | case |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strength | amod |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Boys | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 serve | mark |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 army | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 household | nmod:poss |
| 9 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 army | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 household | case |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | to-infinitive | Boys with great strength | in his household's army | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in army=Attribute |
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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