Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

Wait, who was the old dude who followed them, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, old dude · What happens: wait, be, follow · To what, where: old dude, them

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 dude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dude	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 followed	nsubj
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dude	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 followed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 real	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the old dude	tree rules
3	follow	past	the old dude	them = they	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

A general called Sadamitsu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 general	det
2	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 general	acl
4	Sadamitsu	Sadamitsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a general not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A servant of the Emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Emperor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod

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

Option 3

A samurai named Raiko

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 samurai	det
2	samurai	samurai	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 samurai	acl
4	Raiko	Raiko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a samurai not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A woodcutter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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