Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, par…

ngl, why did the Prince get a random new son?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: get · To what, where: random new son

This is test 3 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 son	det
9	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 son	amod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	ngl	a random new son					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus

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

Cause he wanted a new squire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squire	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squire	amod
6	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cause	a new squire					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot squire=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he had no son of his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cause	no son of Cause's own					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Emperor ordered it after a long argument at court about the succession

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 argument	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 argument	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 argument	amod
8	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 court	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 argument	nmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 succession	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 succession	det
13	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Emperor	it			after a long argument at court about the succession		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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