Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

did he see his parents at all, tbh?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: see · To what, where: parents, all

This is test 3 · ★ 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 see	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 see	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tbh	punct
9	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	he	his parents		all		tbh property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus

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

Nah, he never found a trace of them, not even a stone, just empty grass and a rumor

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trace	det
7	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trace	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stone	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stone	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 stone	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grass	punct
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 grass	advmod
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grass	amod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stone	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rumor	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rumor	det
21	rumor	rumor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	he	a trace of them				a stone obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, just their gravestone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gravestone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 gravestone	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gravestone	nmod:poss
5	gravestone	gravestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, saw them both alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past		them = they				alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, she saw them both at the window waving hello, then the stone told a different story

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	appos
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
10	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 window	acl
11	hello	hello	INTJ	_	10 waving	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 told	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 story	det
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	she	them = they	the window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	wave	gerund	the window not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the stone	a different story		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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