Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…
Mate, did Sentaro get knackered living there for ages?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: knacker, live · To what, where: Sentaro
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knackered | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knackered | aux |
| 4 | Sentaro | Sentaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knackered | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knackered | aux:pass |
| 6 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 knackered | xcomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 living | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ages | case |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 living | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 knackered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knacker | past · passive · do-support | Sentaro | Mate vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | there | for ages | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Yeah, after a few years he was gutted, mate, and he left for the sea.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 gutted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gutted | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 years | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gutted | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gutted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gutted | aux:pass |
| 9 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gutted | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gutted | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | he | year | mate vocative | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | leave | past | he | for the sea | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for sea=Recipient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he got proper bored and went home, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | bored, properly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | he not said here | mate | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, after three hundred years he was gutted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 years | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gutted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gutted | aux:pass |
| 9 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 years | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | he | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
Option 4
Yeah, after three hundred years he was properly gutted and wanted to go home, innit.
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 gutted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gutted | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gutted | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gutted | aux:pass |
| 9 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 10 gutted | advmod |
| 10 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gutted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 innit | punct |
| 17 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | he | year | properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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