Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…
Fr, what does the jelly fish promise to do for the monkey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, jelly fish · What happens: do, promise
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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 | Fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | compound |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 promise | nsubj |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promise | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 monkey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monkey | det |
| 13 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Fr | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | the jelly fish | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the jelly fish not said here | for the monkey | vn act-114-1 «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
guide the boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 guide | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | imperative | you not said here | the boat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
Option 2
carry him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
feed him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 feed | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
keep him safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 keep | obj |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | him = he | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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