Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, par…

so Sentaro prayed like forever at the shrine, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sentaro · What happens: pray · To what, where: shrine

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 prayed	advmod
2	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prayed	nsubj
3	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 forever	case
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 prayed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 shrine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shrine	det
8	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 huh	punct
10	huh	huh	INTJ	_	3 prayed	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 prayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	Sentaro			the shrine			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Nah, he left after two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he				day		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a whole hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hour	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hour	amod
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, three nights in a row

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nights	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nights	nummod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nights	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, seven days straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 days	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 days	advmod

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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