Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…
Yeah nah, what did the old man call the arm-wrestle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: call · To what, where: arm wrestle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 nah | discourse |
| 2 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 call | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 call | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | nsubj |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wrestle | det |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrestle | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 arm | punct |
| 13 | wrestle | wrestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the old man | the arm wrestle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme wrestle=Result |
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
A long tug-of-war on the riverbank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tug | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tug | amod |
| 3 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 war | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 war | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 riverbank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 riverbank | det |
| 10 | riverbank | riverbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 war | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A loss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A drawn game
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 2 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 game | amod |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A quick match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 match | det |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 match | amod |
| 3 | match | match | 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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