Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost…
No way, what did the Sea King's daughters play for the feast?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: do, play · To what, where: daughters, way
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 way | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | obj |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 feast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 play | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no way | the Sea King's daughters | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | play | present | no way | for the feast | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for feast=Eventuality |
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
the koto, the Japanese harp played at feasts in Kyoto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 koto | det |
| 2 | koto | koto | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 harp | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 harp | det |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harp | amod |
| 6 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 koto | appos |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 harp | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feasts | case |
| 9 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 played | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Kyoto | case |
| 11 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | participle | the Japanese harp not said here | feasts | in Kyoto | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the biwa, that Japanese lute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 biwa | det |
| 2 | biwa | biwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lute | punct |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 lute | mark |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lute | amod |
| 6 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 biwa | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the koto, that Japanese harp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 koto | det |
| 2 | koto | koto | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 harp | punct |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 harp | mark |
| 5 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harp | amod |
| 6 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 koto | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the bamboo flute with five holes and a cord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flute | det |
| 2 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flute | compound |
| 3 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 holes | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 holes | nummod |
| 6 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flute | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cord | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cord | det |
| 9 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holes | conj |
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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