Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Paper Crane: Sentaro reaches Per…
Was he, like, super keen to live forever at the start?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, live · To what, where: he, start
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 he | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keen | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 he | punct |
| 4 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 keen | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 6 | super | super | ADV | _ | 7 keen | advmod |
| 7 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keen | xcomp |
| 10 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 9 live | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 start | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 start | det |
| 13 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 keen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the start | forever property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Location |
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
Yeah, he reckoned living for ever meant he could travel the whole world and never get bored.
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 reckoned | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 meant | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 meant | advmod |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | ccomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 travel | aux |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meant | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travel | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | conj |
| 18 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 get | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | gerund | he not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | past | he not said here | ever | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | travel | could | he | the whole world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not get | present | he not said here | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he reckoned he'd never get bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| 9 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not get | would | he | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Nah, he was happy to die when his time came, mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | csubj |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 time | nmod:poss |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mate | punct |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | vocative |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | his time | mate vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, he wanted to stay for ever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 stay | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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