Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

yo how fast was the basket going on its own?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, basket · What happens: be, go · To what, where: basket, own

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 basket	nsubj
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 basket	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 basket	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 basket	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 going	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 basket	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	yo	the basket				fast property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	the basket not said here			basket's own			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=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

by a strong tide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 tide	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tide	det
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tide	amod
4	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

by its own accord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 accord	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 accord	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 accord	amod
4	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

by oars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 oars	case
2	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

by magic spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 spells	case
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spells	amod
3	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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