Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is…

Ok real talk, what did the old man say about her whole life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: old man, Ok real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1359 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is taken back to the moon» 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	Ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 life	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present		Ok real talk				about her whole life	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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

She was never once bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 bad	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 bad	advmod
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She					bad, once property	tree rules

Option 2

She never once did a wrong thing in her whole life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 did	advmod
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 life	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	She	a wrong thing		her whole life		once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She never once did wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 did	advmod
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	She					once, wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She was the most beautiful woman anyone ever saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 anyone	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 anyone	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anyone	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anyone	compound
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	anyone					tree rules
2	see	past					ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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