Test 8 · ★ · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

Lowkey, what instrument was Hase-Hime good at?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey instrument · What happens: instrument, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 instrument	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 instrument	nsubj
4	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 good	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
6	Hase	Hase	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 good	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Hime	punct
8	Hime	Hime	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hase	flat
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	9 good	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instrument								tree rules
2	is	past	Lowkey instrument					good property	tree rules

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 shamisen, she was great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shamisen	det
2	shamisen	shamisen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 shamisen	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 great	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	cop
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shamisen					great property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The koto, she was a legend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 koto	det
2	koto	koto	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 koto	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legend	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the koto	a legend					tree rules

Option 3

The koto, she was a legend at every festival in the whole city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 koto	det
2	koto	koto	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 koto	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legend	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 festival	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 festival	det
10	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 city	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 city	amod
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 legend	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the koto	a legend		every festival		in the whole city	tree rules

Option 4

The koto, she was a legend, and everyone in the whole court knew it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 koto	det
2	koto	koto	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 legend	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legend	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 legend	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 legend	det
7	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 koto	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 knew	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 court	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 court	amod
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everyone	nmod
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a legend					tree rules
2	know	past	the koto and a legend	court					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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