Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

how do you know the ogre's a monster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ogre · What happens: know, be · To what, where: monster · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1382 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro storms the Demon King's castle, frees the captives and takes the devil chief home» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogre	det
6	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 monster	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 monster	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	the ogre	a monster					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 · ← Mova's choice

he has red skin, three eyes and a mouth that breathes black smoke and fire

The tree, 15 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eyes	punct
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 eyes	nummod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skin	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mouth	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouth	det
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 breathes	nsubj
12	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mouth	acl:relcl
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 smoke	amod
14	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 breathes	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fire	cc
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smoke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	he	red skin and three eyes and a mouth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	breathe	present	a mouth	black smoke and fire					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme

Option 2

he has claws and fangs

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fangs	cc
5	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 claws	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	he	claws and fangs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient

Option 3

he has a bloody face

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 face	det
4	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	he	a bloody face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his mouth shoots flames

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 mouth	nmod:poss
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoots	nsubj
3	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoots	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	his mouth	flames					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=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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