Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…
did the Knight say he saw a shiny dude on the beach?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Knight · What happens: say, see · To what, where: shiny dude, beach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1357 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonlight, part 17: a fake bowl is sent back and a fake branch is found out» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Knight | det |
| 3 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dude | det |
| 8 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dude | amod |
| 9 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beach | det |
| 12 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the Knight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Knight | a shiny dude | the beach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dude=Stimulus |
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
Yep, a shiny dude holding a golden bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dude | det |
| 4 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dude | amod |
| 5 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dude | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bowl | amod |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a shiny dude not said here | a golden bowl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yep, holding a golden bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 3 holding | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bowl | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bowl | amod |
| 6 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a golden bowl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, a glowing guy on sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 guy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guy | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 guy | det |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 guy | amod |
| 5 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yep, a dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 dude | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dude | det |
| 4 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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