Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…

The goblin lives on what, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: goblin · What happens: live

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1363 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1: a lost priest finds a lonely hut and a forbidden room» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goblin	det
2	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lives	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the goblin					exactly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on what=Location

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

Wild berries, yuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 berries	amod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yuck	punct
4	yuck	yuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 berries	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Whatever poor travellers wander into her cottage after nightfall, yuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 travellers	det:predet
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 travellers	amod
3	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wander	nsubj
4	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cottage	nmod:poss
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wander	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 nightfall	case
9	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wander	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yuck	punct
11	yuck	yuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nightfall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	present	whatever poor travellers			her cottage	after nightfall and yuck		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cottage=Destination

Option 3

Human flesh and bones, yuck, plus whatever scraps the foxes leave behind on the plain

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flesh	amod
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bones	cc
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flesh	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yuck	punct
6	yuck	yuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flesh	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scraps	punct
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	10 scraps	cc
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 scraps	nsubj
10	scraps	scrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 foxes	det
12	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leave	nsubj
13	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 plain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 plain	det
17	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrap	present	whatever						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave behind	present	Human flesh and bones and yuck			the plain		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location

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

Human flesh, yuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flesh	amod
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yuck	punct
4	yuck	yuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flesh	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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