Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…
Did she make it to the sparrow's place without trouble?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: make · To what, where: it
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» 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 make | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sparrow | det |
| 7 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 sparrow | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | she | it | to the sparrow's place; without trouble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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
nah, she got there sweaty and out of breath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sweaty | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | sweaty | sweaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 breath | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 breath | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 breath | case |
| 10 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sweaty | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | she | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
nah, she was late and cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 late | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cross | cc |
| 7 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 late | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | she not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, but she got there in a right state
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 state | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 state | det |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 state | amod |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | she | a right state; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
yeah, but she was all flustered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 flustered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flustered | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 flustered | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flustered | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flustered | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 flustered | advmod |
| 7 | flustered | flustered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | all, flustered property | tree rules |
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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