Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…
Be honest, how long did the dad wait before getting remarried?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dad · What happens: be, wait, remarry
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1361 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother gives her daughter a mirror, and a stepmother accuses the girl» 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 wait | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dad | det |
| 8 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | nsubj |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | parataxis |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 remarried | mark |
| 11 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 remarried | aux:pass |
| 12 | remarried | remarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wait | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | past · do-support | the dad | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remarry | gerund · passive | the dad not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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
around three years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a whole year, maybe more, till the relatives sorted it out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sorted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 5 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 year | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 relatives | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 relatives | det |
| 10 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sorted | nsubj |
| 11 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sorted | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sorted | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | past | the relatives | it | year | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
about two years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 two | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a whole year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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