Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…

why'd the jewelers come knocking, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jewelers · What happens: come, knock · To what, where: fr

This is test 12 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jewelers	det
4	jewelers	jeweler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 come	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocking	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the jewelers						tree rules
2	knock	gerund	the jewelers not said here	fr					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fr=Patient

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

To get paid, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 paid	mark
2	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct
5	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	3 paid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive · passive						obviously property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

Option 2

To gossip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gossip	mark
2	gossip	gossip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gossip speech: other	to-infinitive							vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They wanted their pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pay	nmod:poss
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	their pay					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pay=Theme
2	pay		their = they						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They wanted their money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	their money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme

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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