Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

where is this devil island anyway, like how far

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: devil island · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1380 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves home and gains a dog» 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 where	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 island	det
4	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 island	compound
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 where	nsubj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 where	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 where	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 far	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 where	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this devil island					anyway, where property	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

Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, past many mountains and rivers and a wide sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Japan	case
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 valley	punct
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 valley	advmod
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mountains	punct
10	past	past	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mountains	amod
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Northeast	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rivers	cc
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 mountains	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sea	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sea	det
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Northeast of Japan, far off the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Japan	case
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 valley	punct
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 valley	advmod
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Northeast of Japan, far off the valley, and it takes many days of walking to reach it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Northeast	northeast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Japan	case
3	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 valley	punct
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 valley	advmod
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valley	det
8	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Northeast	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 takes	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 takes	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 walking	mark
16	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 days	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 reach	mark
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 walking	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	present	Northeast of Japan and the valley		day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	walk	gerund	many days not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	to-infinitive	many days not said here	valley		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Out past the sea to the north side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Out	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
7	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 side	amod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Out	obl

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

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