Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bamboo-Cutter and Princess Moonl…
how long did the Knight claim the trip home took?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Knight, trip · What happens: claim, take · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 claim | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 claim | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Knight | det |
| 5 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 claim | nsubj |
| 6 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trip | det |
| 8 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 claim | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 claim | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past · do-support | the Knight | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the trip | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Four hundred days by sea, with storms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 storms | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 storms | case |
| 8 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four hundred nights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 nights | nummod |
| 3 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Two hundred days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four hundred days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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