Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

did he feel like he was dreaming?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: feel, dream

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1616 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5: three hundred years have passed» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 dreaming	case
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dreaming	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dreaming	aux
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 feel	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	dream	past · progressive	he						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, more like he lost his mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 lost	advmod
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 lost	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	he	his mind					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Eventuality
2	mind		his = he						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Nah, more like he was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 sick	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 sick	case
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	cop
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sick property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, like a weird old dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 dream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dream	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 dream	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dream	det
5	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dream	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dream	amod
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, it felt just like the dreams where you walk through a village that vanished long ago

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 dreams	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 dreams	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dreams	det
8	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 felt	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 walk	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
11	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dreams	acl:relcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 village	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 village	det
14	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 vanished	nsubj
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 village	acl:relcl
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ago	advmod
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	16 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	it		like the dreams	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like dream=Theme
2	walk	present	you	a village		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Trajectory
3	vanish	past	a village		ago property	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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