Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

Wait, what was the monkey actually sitting on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: wait, be, sit on · To what, where: monkey

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 monkey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 monkey	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 sitting	advmod
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 monkey	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 sitting	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the monkey		tree rules
3	sit on	gerund	the monkey not said here		actually property	vn assuming_position-50 «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

a willow limb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 limb	det
2	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 limb	compound
3	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a pine branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 branch	det
2	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 branch	compound
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a high pine branch over the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 branch	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 branch	amod
3	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 branch	compound
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 branch	nmod

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

Option 4

a thick pine branch hanging over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 branch	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 branch	amod
3	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 branch	compound
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 branch	acl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	a thick pine branch not said here			the sea			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Location

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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