Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…
Mate, what made Kintaro's mum so happy?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: mum
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Kintaro | Kintaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Kintaro | case |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 happy | advmod |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Kintaro's mum | Mate vocative; happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material mum=Product |
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
Her son's return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 son | case |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | Her son | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Her hope to see him wed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | him = he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wed | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hope | Her = she | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Her wish for him to be a samurai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 samurai | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 samurai | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 samurai | det |
| 8 | samurai | samurai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wish | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a samurai | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | Her = she | for him = he | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Her son's new red armour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 armour | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 son | case |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 armour | amod |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 armour | amod |
| 6 | armour | armour | 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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