Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the sui…

So, what kept the Emperor busy after he left?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep, leave · To what, where: Emperor

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		the Emperor				busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme
2	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Composing verses for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Composing	compose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Composing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Composing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compose	gerund		verses				for her = she	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent verse=Result for she=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Writing poems to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Writing	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		poems	her = she				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent poem=Topic to she=Recipient

Option 3

Sitting in the palace garden, writing letters and poems to his court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 garden	compound
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 writing	punct
7	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 writing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 poems	cc
10	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 letters	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 court	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 court	nmod:poss
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				the palace garden			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
2	write	gerund		letters and poems	his court				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to court=Recipient

Option 4

Sending letters to friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sending	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 friends	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		letters	friends				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to friend=Destination

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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