Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

was his old house still standing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: old house

This is test 6 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 house	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 house	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	csubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his old house					tree rules
2	stand	gerund					still		vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but looking weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 looking	cc
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nope, just a pile of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 pile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 pile	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pile	det
5	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pile	nmod

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

Option 3

Not really, only the foundation stones and a patch of grass remain where it stood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	13 remain	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 stones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stones	det
6	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stones	compound
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 remain	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 patch	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 patch	det
10	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stones	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	nmod
13	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 stood	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 remain	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	the foundation stones and a patch of grass						tree rules
2	stand	past	grass						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, still there but now surrounded by a huge new wall and a strange tall gate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 surrounded	cc
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 surrounded	advmod
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 there	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 wall	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wall	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wall	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wall	amod
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surrounded	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gate	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gate	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gate	amod
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gate	amod
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle					now	by a huge new wall	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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