Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Yamato Take, part 38: t…

wait so the wind just turned and fried the governor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wind · What happens: wait, turn, fry · To what, where: governor

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fried	cc
8	fried	fry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 governor	det
10	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fried	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	the wind		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	fry	past	the wind not said here	the governor	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent governor=Patient

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

no, the wind just stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stopped	advmod
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the wind						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

fr, the fire went back at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fire	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	fr and the fire					at him = he	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 3

kinda, the grass caught fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the grass	fire				kinda property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 4

nah, the governor was fine, the fire just went out after a bit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 governor	det
4	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	parataxis
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 bit	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bit	det
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the governor					fine property	tree rules
2	go out	past	the fire				after a bit	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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