Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…
Bruv, so the islanders wanted to snuff it, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: want, snuff, innit · To what, where: it
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1355 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Perpetual Life, tires of it, and wakes from a dream» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islanders | det |
| 5 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 snuff | mark |
| 8 | snuff | snuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 snuff | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 snuff | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Bruv | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | snuff not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bruv not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | Bruv not said here | 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
Yeah, they fancied it, innit, like.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fancied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | nsubj |
| 4 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 4 fancied | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 fancied | discourse |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | they | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, they reckoned Paradise was rubbish, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbish | compound |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubbish | cop |
| 7 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckoned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbish | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Paradise rubbish and mate | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they reckoned Paradise was proper mint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mint | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mint | cop |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mint | amod |
| 8 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | they | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Paradise | proper mint | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, mate, dead keen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keen | punct |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keen | amod |
| 6 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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