Test 6 · ★ · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

Okay, what did Hase-Hime's mom tell her before she died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mom · What happens: do, tell, die · To what, where: Hime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1352 «The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 12: Kintaro becomes a hero, and a stepmother plots poison» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	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	Hase	Hase	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hime	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Hase	punct
7	Hime	Hime	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mom	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Hime	case
9	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 died	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 died	nsubj
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Hase Hime's mom	Hime	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	past	mom		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Be a good girl and obey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 girl	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 obey	cc
6	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	imperative	you not said here	a good girl					tree rules
2	obey	present	you not said here						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Never cry, just be brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 cry	advmod
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cry	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 brave	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 brave	cop
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive	you not said here					brave property	tree rules

Option 3

Stay close and be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 safe	cc
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 close	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	infinitive	you not said here					safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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