Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

Real talk, what did the girl do while mom worked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: work

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worked	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 worked	aux
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 worked	mark
10	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	nsubj
11	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · do-support	Real talk						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Played games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 games	amod
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Carried water from the well to the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle		water		the well		to the house	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location to house=Destination

Option 3

Sat quietly and watched the snow fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watched	nsubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 watched	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watched	cc
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fall	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	compound
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Sat	the snow fall				quietly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme

Option 4

Helped cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cook	amod
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	participle							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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