Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

Wait, what was the goblin's big knife doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, big knife · What happens: wait, do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goblin	det
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 goblin	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knife	amod
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	nsubj
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	the goblin's big knife						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

blood-stained and scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stained	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 blood	punct
3	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 scary	cc
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stained	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

covered in fresh blood and very frightening to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 blood	case
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blood	amod
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 covered	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 frightening	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 frightening	advmod
7	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 covered	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 frightening	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in fresh blood	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in blood=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

bloody and shining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 shining	cc
3	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 bloody	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

dirty and very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 long	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dirty	conj

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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