Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is…

Bro, why did the bamboo-cutter get so old so fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, get · To what, where: bamboo cutter

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cutter	det
6	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cutter	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bamboo	punct
8	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 get	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the bamboo cutter					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutter=Eventuality
2	get	present	Bro					fast, old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was sad about losing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 losing	mark
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sad	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					sad property	tree rules
2	lose	gerund	He not said here	her = she					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality

Option 2

He was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					sick property	tree rules

Option 3

He was very tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

He worried about the Emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worried	nsubj
2	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 Emperor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 worried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worry	past	He					about the Emperor	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about emperor=Stimulus

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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