Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…

So the crane just flew Sentaro home, no bother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crane · What happens: fly · To what, where: Sentaro home

This is test 4 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crane	det
3	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Sentaro	Sentaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 home	compound
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bother	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bother	det
10	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 home	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the crane	Sentaro home and no bother					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, a storm soaked it and it dropped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 soaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soaked	nsubj
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soaked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dropped	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	participle	a storm	it					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop	past	storm	him = he					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Nah, the wind blew it off course and it landed on a distant island, mate.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blew	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 blew	compound:prt
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 landed	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 landed	nsubj
11	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blew	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 island	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 island	det
14	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 island	amod
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 landed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 island	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow off	past	the wind	it					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary course=Product
2	land	past	wind			a distant island and mate			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination

Option 3

Nah, a storm soaked it and it dropped him, but a shark rescued him, innit.

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 soaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soaked	nsubj
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soaked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dropped	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rescued	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 rescued	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shark	det
14	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rescued	nsubj
15	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rescued	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 rescued	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 soaked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	soak	participle	a storm	it	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drop	past	storm	him = he	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	rescue	past	a shark	him = he	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	innit	infinitive	a shark not said here		tree rules

Option 4

Nah, a huge storm soaked the paper crane through and it dropped him right into the cold sea.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 crane	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 storm	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 storm	amod
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crane	nsubj
6	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 storm	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 paper	det
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaked	obj
9	crane	crane	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADV	_	9 crane	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dropped	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dropped	nsubj
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crane	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dropped	obj
15	right	right	ADV	_	19 sea	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sea	amod
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 crane	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	soak	participle	a huge storm not said here	the paper			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent paper=Source
2	crane	present	a huge storm			through property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	storm	him = he	the cold sea		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sea=Destination

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