Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Why did the old man want the ashes, like, what's the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: want, be · To what, where: ashes

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ashes	det
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reason	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	15 reason	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 reason	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 reason	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the old man	the ashes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ash=Theme
2	is	present						like the reason	tree rules

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

To feed birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			birds				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To remember his dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remember	mark
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dog	nmod:poss
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive		his dog					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 3

To honor his old cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 honor	mark
2	honor	honor	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honor	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honor	to-infinitive		his old cat					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 4

To find a pet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pet	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		a pet					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Topic

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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