Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

what's the vibe with the knights in the new tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vibe · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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 vibe	det
4	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 knights	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knights	det
7	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vibe	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tale	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tale	amod
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knights	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the vibe with the knights in the new tale						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

they gathered in a hall to discuss the strange rumours about ogres and the city wall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gathered	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 discuss	mark
7	discuss	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gathered	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rumours	det
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rumours	amod
10	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 discuss	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 ogres	case
12	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rumours	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wall	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wall	compound
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rumours	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	they			a hall			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discuss speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here	the strange rumours and the city wall				about ogres	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Topic

Option 2

they argued about a rumour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 rumour	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rumour	det
5	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they					about a rumour	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rumour=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they sat around drinking sake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 drinking	mark
4	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
5	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit around	past	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	gerund	they not said here	sake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sake=Patient

Option 4

they sat around playing go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 playing	mark
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 playing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	sit around	past	they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	gerund	they not said here	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go	infinitive	they not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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