Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

what did he hope the box could do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, box · What happens: hope, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hope	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hope	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hope	nsubj
4	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hope	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hope	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past · do-support	he						tree rules
2	do	could	the box						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Break the spell like a charm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Break	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 charm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 charm	det
6	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	the spell				like a charm	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient

Option 2

Undo the whole enchantment and carry him back to the sea palace where he belongs

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Undo	undo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enchantment	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 enchantment	amod
4	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Undo	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carry	cc
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Undo	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 palace	compound
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 belongs	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 belongs	nsubj
15	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 palace	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	undo	imperative	you not said here	the whole enchantment		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Patient
2	carry back	infinitive	you not said here	him = he	the sea palace	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Destination
3	belong	present	he			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Undo the magic, like a counter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Undo	undo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magic	det
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Undo	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 counter	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 counter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 counter	det
7	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Undo	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo	imperative	you not said here	the magic				like a counter	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Show him the way back to the year he left home so he could warn his family

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Show	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Show	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 year	acl:relcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 left	advmod
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	15 warn	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 warn	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 warn	aux
15	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Show	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 family	nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	imperative	you not said here	the way	him = he	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
2	leave	past	he	the year not said here			home property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=Theme
3	warn speech: warn	could	he	his family				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient

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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