Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the sui…
Ngl, what did the Emperor do after she vanished?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, vanish · To what, where: Emperor
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1358 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the suitors fail, the Emperor comes, the Princess tells her secret» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 vanished | aux |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 vanished | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 vanished | nsubj |
| 10 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | the Emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | vanish | present · do-support | Ngl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
Swore to release her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 release | mark |
| 3 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Swore | xcomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 release | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | release | to-infinitive | her = she | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Wrote a formal decree to release her and ordered his servants to search for her
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 decree | det |
| 3 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 decree | amod |
| 4 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wrote | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 release | mark |
| 6 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wrote | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 release | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ordered | cc |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wrote | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 servants | nmod:poss |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 search | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | a formal decree | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Theme | |||||
| 2 | release | to-infinitive | her = she | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source | |||||
| 3 | order | past | his servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | search not said to happen | to-infinitive | his servants not said here | for her = she | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Promised to let her go free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 let | mark |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Promised | xcomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | her = she not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Ordered the palace guards to search the mountains for her for three days straight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guards | nsubj |
| 4 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ordered | parataxis |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 guards | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 search | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 search | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 search | obl |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 search | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | guard | present | the palace | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | the palace not said here | the mountains | day | for palace; straight property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent mountain=Location for she=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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