Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

what's the rumour the knights are arguing about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rumour, knights · What happens: be, argue · To what, where: rumour

This is test 12 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rumour	det
4	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knights	det
6	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arguing	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 arguing	aux
8	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rumour	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	8 arguing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the rumour						tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	present · progressive	the knights	the rumour not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rumour=Topic

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

a sighting of a giant ogre roaming the whole northern road to the sea each night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sighting	det
2	sighting	sighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaming	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ogre	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ogre	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ogre	amod
6	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sighting	nmod
7	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 road	amod
10	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 road	amod
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaming	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaming	obl
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roaming	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roam	gerund	a sighting of a giant ogre	the whole northern road			night	to the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory
2	sight			a giant ogre					nom sighting «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

bandits near the river bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bandits	bandit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	near	near	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bridge	compound
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bandits	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ogres at the Gate of Rashomon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 Gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Gate	det
4	Gate	Gate	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ogres	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Rashomon	case
6	Rashomon	Rashomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Gate	nmod

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

Option 4

ghosts at the ruined shrine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 shrine	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shrine	det
4	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shrine	amod
5	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ghosts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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