Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, par…

so the prince said he's an avenger of evil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: say, be · To what, where: avenger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 avenger	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 avenger	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 avenger	det
8	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 evil	case
10	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 avenger	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	prince	a avenger				of evil	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

Yup, he said he was the avenger of evil and that he would bring death to every rebel in the land

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 avenger	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 avenger	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 avenger	det
8	avenger	avenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 evil	case
10	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 avenger	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bring	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 bring	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bring	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bring	aux
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 rebel	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 rebel	det
19	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 land	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			Yup vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	the avenger		of evil	tree rules
3	bring	would	he	death	the land	to every rebel	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent death=Theme to rebel=Destination

Option 2

Nah, just a guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 guard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 guard	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guard	det
5	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nope, a friend of the rebels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 friend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 rebels	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rebels	det
7	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friend	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, bringing death to rebels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bringing	punct
3	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Yup	acl
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bringing	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 rebels	case
6	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	gerund	Yup not said here	death		rebels			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent death=Theme to rebel=Destination

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