Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, par…

wait, did the crane stop to eat on the way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, crane · What happens: wait, do, stop, eat · To what, where: way

This is test 12 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crane	det
5	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stop	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	the crane		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	eat	to-infinitive	the crane not said here	the way	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP 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 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, it flew low and Sentaro ate rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ate	cc
7	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it					low property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	Sentaro	rice					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

Option 2

Yep, it landed on a tiny island three times, and Sentaro shared a rice cake with the crane while they rested on the sand

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 island	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 island	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 island	amod
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 landed	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shared	cc
13	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shared	nsubj
14	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 landed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cake	det
16	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cake	compound
17	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shared	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 crane	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crane	det
20	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shared	obl
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 rested	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rested	nsubj
23	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shared	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sand	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sand	det
26	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	it		a tiny island	time		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination
2	share	past	Sentaro	a rice cake			with the crane	tree rules
3	rest	past	they		the sand			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, it never stopped, and Sentaro didn't eat either

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 stopped	advmod
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
8	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 eat	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	conj
12	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not eat	past · do-support	Sentaro					either property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, it stopped at a pine grove to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 grove	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grove	det
7	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grove	compound
8	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rest	mark
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	it			a pine grove			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at grove=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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