Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

cringe that he broke his sword, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cringe · What happens: break · To what, where: sword

This is test 12 · ★ 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	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 broke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sword	nmod:poss
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	cringe	cringe's sword					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Patient

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

he broke it and then made hundreds of hooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hooks	case
9	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hundreds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
2	make	past	he not said here	hundreds of hooks			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he broke it into pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	it				into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result

Option 3

he broke it into pieces and gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 broke	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	it				into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result
2	give away	past	he not said here	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

he broke it into bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 broke	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 bits	case
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	it				into bits result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into bit=Result

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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