Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost…

Dude, what did the fishes all do when the Sea King called?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call · To what, where: Sea King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1367 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost hook is found in the TAI's throat and returned, and the Hunter stays on in the Sea Palace» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	csubj:pass
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 called	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 King	compound
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	nsubj:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle · passive		the Sea King					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

bowed and waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 waited	cc
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past							vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

came in, bowed low, and sat down in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 came	conj
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 came	conj
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow	participle		low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	order		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location

Option 3

swam away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	past						away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

came in and sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 came	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 came	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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