Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

Was the garden lush or what?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lush	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lush	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lush	compound
4	lush	lush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 what	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the garden lush					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

yeah, a huge garden full of blossoming trees, ponds, and a perfect little cottage at the centre

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 garden	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garden	amod
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 garden	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ponds	punct
11	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cottage	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cottage	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cottage	det
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cottage	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cottage	amod
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 garden	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 centre	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 centre	det
20	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cottage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blossom	gerund							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, a tiny spick-and-span house in a mega garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 house	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spick	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spick	amod
5	spick	spick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 house	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 house	cc
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 and	punct
9	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	compound
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	mega	mega	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 garden	compound
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod

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

Option 3

yeah, a vast enchanted garden with silver gates, singing birds, and a shining golden palace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 garden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 garden	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vast	det
4	vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	nsubj
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 garden	amod
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 gates	case
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gates	compound
9	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 garden	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 birds	punct
11	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 garden	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 palace	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 palace	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 palace	det
16	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 palace	amod
17	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 palace	amod
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	enchant	participle	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	gerund	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shine	gerund	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, just a dusty field with a small shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 field	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 field	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 field	det
5	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 field	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 shed	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shed	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shed	amod
10	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	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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