Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is…

Hold up, what made the Emperor scared of the potion?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Emperor · What happens: hold up, make, scare

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Emperor	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 scared	nsubj
8	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 potion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 potion	det
11	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scared	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	make	past			tree rules
3	scare	past	the Emperor	of the potion	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

He feared the Elixir's smell

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elixir	det
4	Elixir	Elixir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Elixir	case
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He	the Elixir's smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus
2	smell		the Elixir						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It was too hot to touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					hot property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He was afraid to touch it because it was from the moon

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 touch	mark
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 moon	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moon	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 moon	cop
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 moon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moon	det
12	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			afraid property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	He not said here	it			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	is	past	it		the moon		tree rules

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

He was afraid to touch it

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 touch	mark
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 afraid	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					afraid property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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