Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…

Was the messenger a proper angel or just some bloke?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: messenger

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 messenger	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 messenger	det
3	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angel	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 angel	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 angel	amod
6	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 bloke	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 bloke	advmod
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bloke	det
10	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angel	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 angel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the messenger					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

A spirit, he drifted off quietly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spirit	det
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drifted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spirit	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drifted	nsubj
5	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 drifted	compound:prt
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 drifted	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift off	past	a spirit					quietly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An angel, he vanished after talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vanished	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 angel	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vanished	nsubj
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 talking	mark
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 vanished	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	a angel						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	a angel not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A demon, he tricked Sentaro with a book and then vanished.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 demon	det
2	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 demon	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	nsubj
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 book	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vanished	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 vanished	advmod
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	a demon	Sentaro				with a book	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentaro=Patient
2	vanish	past	a demon not said here				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

An angel, he came with a book of rules and then went home to Paradise with the saint.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 angel	det
2	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 angel	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 book	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rules	case
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 book	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Paradise	case
16	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 saint	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 saint	det
19	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a angel					with a book of rules	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	a angel not said here			Paradise	then	with the saint; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paradise=Initial_Location

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