Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

be real, why did the brother want him gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brother, him · What happens: be, want, go · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» 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 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 want	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	obj
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 want	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	the brother	him = he		tree rules
3	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

to take over the whole kingdom of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	2 take	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingdom	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kingdom	amod
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take over	to-infinitive		the whole kingdom of the sea					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 2

to take the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throne	det
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		the throne					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to rule Japan himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 rule	mark
2	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rule	obj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 Japan	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	to-infinitive		Japan Japan					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent japan=Result

Option 4

to rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 rule	mark
2	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	to-infinitive							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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