Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Did the neighbor's ashes work on the tree, or was it a total fail?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ashes, tree · What happens: work, be · To what, where: total fail

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ashes	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbor	det
3	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ashes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 neighbor	case
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	nsubj
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fail	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 fail	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fail	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fail	nsubj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fail	det
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fail	amod
16	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the neighbor's ashes					on the tree	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme
2	is a	past	tree	a total fail					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 · ✓ the right answer

Total fail, not even a bud came forth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fail	amod
2	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bud	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bud	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 bud	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bud	det
7	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fail	conj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Total fail and a bud					forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Total fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fail	amod
2	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It worked fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 worked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	It					fine property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Epic fail, the tree stayed bare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Epic	epic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fail	amod
2	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fail	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Epic fail					bare property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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