Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Story of Yamato Take, part 38: t…

why did he call the spot Yaidzu, like what's the deal

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: call, be · To what, where: spot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 call	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spot	det
6	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
7	Yaidzu	Yaidzu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spot	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 deal	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 deal	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deal	det
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	he	the spot					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spot=Recipient
2	is	present						like the deal	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

a name from the old pine trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
6	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 name	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it's where he escaped the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 escaped	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 escaped	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 escaped	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 escaped	nsubj
5	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escaped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					escape property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

named after the field where the governor set the fire and lost it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 field	amod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	nsubj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 set	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 governor	det
7	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	nsubj
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lost	cc
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	name	participle			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	set	past	the named field	the fire	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result
3	lose	past	the named field not said here	fire	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

it's where he escaped the fire, and the name came from the grass that burned

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 escaped	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 escaped	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 escaped	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 escaped	nsubj
5	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escaped	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 escaped	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 burned	nsubj
17	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grass	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		escape property	tree rules
2	come	past	the name	the grass		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from grass=Initial_Location
3	burn	past	the grass			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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