Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is…

Okay but why did she keep the aliens waiting so long?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, aliens · What happens: keep, wait · To what, where: aliens

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Okay	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 aliens	det
8	aliens	alien	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	obj
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 waiting	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	she	the aliens					tree rules
2	wait	gerund	the aliens not said here					long property	vn exist-47.1 «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

She was busy with her hair

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	3 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 busy	cop
3	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					with her hair; busy property	tree rules

Option 2

She had to write a note

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	write	to-infinitive	She not said here	a note					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

Option 3

She was writing

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	3 writing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 writing	aux
3	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · progressive	She						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She wanted to write a letter

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	a letter					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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