Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

ngl that mortar was lit, what did it do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mortar · What happens: lit, do · To what, where: ngl

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» 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	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lit	nsubj:pass
3	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lit	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	aux:pass
5	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ngl	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ngl	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		ngl					tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	mortar	ngl					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

made more rice cakes than went in, every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cakes	amod
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cakes	compound
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 made	obj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cakes	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		more rice cakes			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product
2	go in	past	more rice cakes not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

turned rice into extra cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cakes	case
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cakes	amod
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		rice		extra cakes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rice=Theme into cake=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

made more rice cakes than went in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cakes	amod
3	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cakes	compound
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 made	obj
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 made	advcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		more rice cakes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product
2	go in	past							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

gave more cakes than rice given

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cakes	amod
3	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gave	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 rice	case
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obl
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 gave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		more cakes				than rice	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
2	give	participle							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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