Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mo…

bro, why did the prince not just go straight home after the fight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not go

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1379 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mountain: he kills the monster, is poisoned, heals in hot springs, and goes home to Ise» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 go	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 home	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 fight	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fight	det
14	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · do-support					after the fight	bro vocative; home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

he wanted to visit the shrine on the way, so he detoured for days

The tree, 14 words

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 visit	mark
4	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shrine	det
6	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visit	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 detoured	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 detoured	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 detoured	nsubj
13	detoured	detour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 detoured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the shrine	the way		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrine=Co-Agent
3	detour	past	he			day	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted a more interesting route

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 route	det
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 interesting	advmod
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 route	amod
6	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a interesting route					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot route=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

his aunt had told him the direct road was dangerous and full of ghosts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dangerous	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
7	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dangerous	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dangerous	cop
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 full	cc
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dangerous	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 ghosts	case
14	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		his aunt	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	is	past	the direct road			dangerous property	tree rules
3	be		the direct road not said here			of ghosts	tree rules

Option 4

he fancied seeing the coast road

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 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fancied	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 road	compound
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	gerund	he not said here	the coast road					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus

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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