Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

Ngl, what did the priest do when the sun came up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, sun · What happens: do, come up · To what, where: priest

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the priest	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality
2	do	present	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come up	past	the sun		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

prayed and rested in peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rested	cc
3	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 prayed	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 peace	case
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	participle							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	rest	participle				peace			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

said prayers, thanked Buddha

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 said	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 said	xcomp
5	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		prayers					tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	participle			Buddha				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme

Option 3

knelt down, prayed and thanked Buddha for his escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knelt	kneel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 prayed	advcl
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 knelt	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prayed	punct
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thanked	cc
6	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prayed	conj
7	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 escape	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 escape	nmod:poss
10	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	kneel down	participle				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	thank speech: thank	past		Buddha	for Buddha's escape	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme for escape=Attribute
4	escape		Buddha			nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

ate breakfast with his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 friends	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		breakfast				with his friends	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient

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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