Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, par…

nah, what did Jofuku hand Sentaro to ride?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jofuku · What happens: hand, ride · To what, where: Sentaro

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1354 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, part 1: Sentaro hears of the Elixir of Life and flies off on a paper crane» 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 hand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hand	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hand	aux
5	Jofuku	Jofuku	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nsubj
6	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hand	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ride	mark
9	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hand	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past · do-support	Jofuku	Sentaro					tree rules
2	ride	to-infinitive	Jofuku not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

A flying carpet woven from silk threads by the Emperor's court weavers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carpet	det
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 carpet	amod
3	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 carpet	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 threads	case
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threads	compound
7	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woven	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 weavers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Emperor	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 weavers	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Emperor	case
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weavers	compound
13	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weave	participle		a flying carpet not said here		silk threads		by the Emperor's court weavers	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from thread=Trajectory

Option 2

A small wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A huge eagle made of bronze that could carry three men over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eagle	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bronze	case
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 carry	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 carry	aux
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eagle	acl:relcl
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a huge eagle not said here				of bronze	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	carry	could	a huge eagle	three men		the sea			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A tiny paper crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crane	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crane	amod
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crane	compound
4	crane	crane	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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