Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…

What did the messenger give him, like a present?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: messenger · What happens: give · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 messenger	det
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 present	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 present	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 present	det
10	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the messenger		him = he			like a present	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=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

a bit of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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

Option 2

a small scroll of prayers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scroll	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scroll	amod
3	scroll	scroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 prayers	case
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scroll	nmod

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

Option 3

a stack of old coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stack	det
2	stack	stack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coins	amod
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stack	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a book full of good advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 book	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 advice	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 advice	amod
6	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

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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