Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

Bruv, what did the woodcutter try to beat Kintaro at?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, try, beat · To what, where: woodcutter, Kintaro

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woodcutter	det
6	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 beat	mark
9	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	9 beat	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the woodcutter	Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	try	infinitive			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kintaro		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kintaro=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

Racing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Arm-wrestling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrestling	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Arm	punct
3	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pulling a large tree up by the roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulling	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pulling	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 roots	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roots	det
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pulling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	gerund		a large tree				by the roots	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 4

Sumo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sumo	sumo	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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