Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…

so what was the Knight's actual reason for ghosting home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: actual reason · What happens: be, ghost · To what, where: actual reason

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reason	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Knight	det
5	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reason	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Knight	case
7	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 ghosting	mark
10	ghosting	ghost	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 reason	acl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 ghosting	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Knight's actual reason					tree rules
2	ghost	gerund	the Knight's actual reason not said here					home property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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

He had fallen for the Princess and couldn't stop thinking

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	3 fallen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fallen	aux
3	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 Princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fallen	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fallen	conj
11	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	He	for the Princess	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for princess=Theme
2	not stop	could	He not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	He not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He wanted to find the bowl fast

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bowl	det
6	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 find	advmod

#	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	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the bowl				fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic

Option 3

He wanted some kind of fame

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fame	case
6	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	some kind of fame					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was in love with the Princess

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 love	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 love	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 love	case
4	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Princess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			love		with the Princess	tree rules

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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