Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, par…

did yamato drop his weapon or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop · To what, where: weapon

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1376 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, part 1: a prince dresses as a lady to trick and slay a rebel chief» 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	3 drop	aux
2	yamato	yamato	X	Foreign=Yes	3 drop	dep
3	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 weapon	nmod:poss
5	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 drop	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · do-support		his weapon					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme

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

Yeah, dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he had a dagger hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dagger	det
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dagger	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a dagger					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient
2	hide	participle		a dagger not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he threw the sword away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past	he	the sword				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

Option 4

Nope, no weapon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 weapon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 weapon	det
4	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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