Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Yamato Take, part 38: t…

ok real talk, why'd he ditch his wife for a girl

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: ditch · To what, where: wife

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1378 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Yamato Take, part 38: the sea storm and Ototachibana's sacrifice» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ditch	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ditch	advmod
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 ditch	aux
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ditch	nsubj
8	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talk	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ditch	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ditch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	would	he	his wife				for a girl	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

she was old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he thought she was old and sunburnt, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sunburnt	cc
7	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she	old property	tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 3

he thought his wife was boring, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boring	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boring	cop
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honestly	punct
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he					honestly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	his wife					boring property	tree rules

Option 4

cuz his wife was too old, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cuz	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here	fr					tree rules
2	is	past	his wife					old 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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