Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the heal…

The fairy was just a lowkey attendant with a huge bag, not the boss!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: be · To what, where: lowkey attendant

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1375 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the healed hare thanks the kind man, who is a fairy, not a King's son» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairy	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attendant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 attendant	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 attendant	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 attendant	det
6	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attendant	amod
7	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bag	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bag	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bag	amod
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attendant	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boss	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 boss	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boss	det
15	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attendant	conj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 attendant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fairy	a lowkey attendant and the boss				with a huge bag	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 · ✓ the right answer

What was the fairy carrying on his back?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fairy	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carrying	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fairy						tree rules
2	carry	gerund	the fairy not said here			fairy's back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A bag?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 bag	punct

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

Option 3

What was he carrying?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 carrying	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carrying	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carrying	nsubj
4	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carrying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	he						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 4

What did the fairy hold in his hands?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hold	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	amod
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fairy hold		his hands			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Eventuality

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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