Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

Mate, what was the nurse faking at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, nurse · What happens: be, fake · To what, where: nurse

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nurse	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nurse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nurse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nurse	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faking	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the nurse	the nurse					tree rules
2	fake	gerund	the nurse not said here				night		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Being a long-lost aunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 aunt	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 aunt	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lost	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 aunt	amod
6	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	gerund		a lost aunt					tree rules

Option 2

Pretending to be a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 maid	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 maid	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 maid	det
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a maid					tree rules

Option 3

Being a nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 nurse	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a nurse					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Being his old nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 nurse	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nurse	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nurse	amod
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		his old nurse					tree rules

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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