Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

bro what did the old couple eat for supper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: old couple

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 supper	case
9	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the old couple					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Eventuality
2	eat	present	bro					for supper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

rice, vegetables, and a little fish from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vegetables	punct
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rice	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fish	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fish	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rice	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

rice and vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 vegetables	cc
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 rice	conj

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

Option 3

plain rice and wild vegetables from the hill garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 vegetables	cc
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vegetables	amod
5	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rice	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 garden	compound
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vegetables	nmod

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

Option 4

fish and noodles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 noodles	cc
3	noodles	noodle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fish	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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