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Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

Wait, so the bird got its tongue slit? That's proper harsh, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird, That · What happens: wait, get, be, innit · To what, where: tongue slit

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Wait, so the bird got its tongue slit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slit	nmod:poss
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slit	compound
9	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	the bird	bird's tongue slit					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slit=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.

Sentence 2: That's proper harsh, innit?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 harsh	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harsh	cop
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 harsh	amod
4	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 harsh	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 harsh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					harsh property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

The options

Option 1

yeah, she used a sharp blade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blade	det
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blade	amod
7	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	she	a sharp blade					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Patient

Option 2

yeah, with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knife	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knife	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 knife	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she did it with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	she	it				with a knife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the wife did it with her own fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 fingers	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fingers	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fingers	amod
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the wife	it				with wife's own fingers	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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