Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Prince Yamato Take, par…
the brothers thought they were the strongest, lol?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: think, be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strongest | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strongest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strongest | det |
| 7 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strongest | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 strongest | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the brothers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | brothers = brother | strong property | 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
Yeah, kinda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 kinda | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they thought so, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 7 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | they | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, till the prince showed up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 showed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 showed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 showed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show up | past | the prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, they were weak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 weak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 weak | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weak | cop |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | they | weak property | tree rules |
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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