Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…

Did the islanders get bored of their long lives?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: islanders · What happens: do, get

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 islanders	det
3	islanders	islander	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lives	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lives	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lives	amod
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bored	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the islanders					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, they loved them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	them = they					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, they were fed up of waiting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux:pass
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	8 waiting	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 up	fixed
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive		they					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were dead tired of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tired	amod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of them = they; tired property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, they were proper happy with them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					with them = they; happy, properly 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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