Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

what date was on the stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: stone

This is test 8 · ★ 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	root	root
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the stone			tree rules

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 exact date of his birth plus the year the village temple burned down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 date	det
2	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 date	amod
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 birth	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 birth	nmod:poss
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 date	nmod
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	9 year	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birth	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 temple	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 temple	compound
12	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burned	nsubj:pass
13	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	participle · passive		the exact date of his birth plus the year					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Almost the day he left home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	3 day	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 day	acl:relcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	the day not said here				home property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme

Option 3

A date that matched the monk's calendar of the new lunar year exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 date	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 matched	nsubj
4	matched	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 date	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monk	det
6	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calendar	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 monk	case
8	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matched	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 year	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
12	lunar	lunar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calendar	nmod
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 matched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	past	a date	the monk's calendar of the new lunar year				exactly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Patient

Option 4

The day of the great flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 flood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flood	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flood	amod
6	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod

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

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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