Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mo…
so who did he and his aunt thank for keeping him alive?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, thank, keep · To what, where: him
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thank | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thank | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 aunt | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 he | conj |
| 8 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 keeping | mark |
| 10 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thank | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keeping | obj |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keeping | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 thank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | he not said here | him = he | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice
All the kami of the mountain and the river and the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kami | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kami | det |
| 3 | kami | kami | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kami | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 river | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mountain | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sea | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kami | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess of the High Heavenly Plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amaterasu | Amaterasu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Goddess | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goddess | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Goddess | compound |
| 5 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Amaterasu | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Plain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Plain | det |
| 8 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Plain | amod |
| 9 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Plain | amod |
| 10 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Goddess | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Izanagi, the god of creation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Izanagi | Izanagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 god | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Izanagi | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 creation | case |
| 6 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amaterasu | Amaterasu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Goddess | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goddess | det |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Goddess | compound |
| 5 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Amaterasu | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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