Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…

Who was Jofuku, like, a superhero or summat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Jofuku

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 Jofuku	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Jofuku	cop
3	Jofuku	Jofuku	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 Jofuku	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 superhero	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 superhero	det
8	superhero	superhero	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Jofuku	appos
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 summat	cc
10	summat	summat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 superhero	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Jofuku	punct

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

He was a merchant, a proper rich one, who sold poisons to the islanders.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 merchant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 merchant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sold	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
13	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sold	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 islanders	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 islanders	det
16	islanders	islander	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sold	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 merchant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a merchant					tree rules
2	sell	past	a proper rich one	poisons	the islanders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent poison=Theme to islander=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was a saint, a proper good one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saint	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 saint	det
4	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saint	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a saint					tree rules

Option 3

Just some old bloke, innit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 bloke	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bloke	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bloke	acl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	infinitive	some old bloke not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A wise old priest, yeah.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 priest	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 priest	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 priest	amod
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 priest	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 priest	discourse
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 priest	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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