Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

Okay but how did the old man even find the bird again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: find · To what, where: bird

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 find	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Okay	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 find	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support		the bird			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic

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

he searched day after day, then walked into a bamboo thicket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searched	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searched	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 walked	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 walked	advmod
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 thicket	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thicket	det
11	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thicket	compound
12	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	he				day		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past					then	into a bamboo thicket result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into thicket=Result

Option 2

he asked the neighbours, then wandered off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wandered	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wandered	advmod
7	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 wandered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he	the neighbours					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient
2	wander off	past	he not said here				then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he searched far and wide for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 searched	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wide	cc
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 searched	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	he					for it; far property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

Option 4

he gave up quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he					quickly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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