Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…

what was the branch chilling in when he gave it over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: branch, he · What happens: be, chill in, give over · To what, where: branch

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 branch	det
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	chilling	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 branch	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 chilling	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 gave	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chilling	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the branch		tree rules
2	chill in	gerund	the branch not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	give over	past	he	branch	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 silver casket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 casket	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 casket	amod
3	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A fancy lacquer box with gold trim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 trim	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trim	compound
7	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lacquer box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	lacquer	lacquer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A wooden chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chest	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chest	amod
3	chest	chest	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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