Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…
Did Sentaro ever go back to the island, mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sentaro · What happens: go back
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 2 | Sentaro | Sentaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 island | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past · do-support | Sentaro | ever | to the island and mate result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result |
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, he went home and stayed put, but he sent letters back to the island every year.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stayed | cc |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stayed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | he not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send back | past | he | letters | the island | year | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to island=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he went home and stayed put
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stayed | cc |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | he not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he went back once to see the islanders and then left for good.
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 islanders | det |
| 10 | islanders | islander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 left | advmod |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 good | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 left | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | he | once property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | he not said here | the islanders | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer islander=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | he not said here | then | for good | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for good=Recipient |
Option 4
Nah, he went home at last and stayed put, and never saw the island or the crane again.
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 last | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stayed | cc |
| 9 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stayed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 saw | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 crane | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crane | det |
| 19 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 island | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 saw | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | last | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | stay | past | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | he not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not see | past | he not said here | the island or the crane | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
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