Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the heal…
The Princess didn't pick the brothers, she went straight to the kind one!
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: not pick, go · To what, where: brothers, kind one
This is test 12 · ★ 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pick | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pick | advmod |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pick | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pick | conj |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pick | past · do-support | the Princess | the brothers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Princess | the kind one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location |
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 kind one?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Which brother did the Princess go to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Princess | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 go | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which brother | the Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The eldest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 eldest | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Which brother did the Princess choose?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Princess | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which brother | the Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | choose | infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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