Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

Hang on, the bird turned into a girl? Mad, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bird · What happens: hang on, turn

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Hang on, the bird turned into a girl?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	the bird					into a girl result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into girl=Result

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: Mad, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
3	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Mad	discourse
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

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

The options

Option 1

nah, she was a rich merchant's daughter, sort of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 daughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 daughter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchant	amod
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 merchant	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 sort	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a rich merchant's daughter and sort					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was actually a fairy queen who had flown down from the moon to find the old man

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 queen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 queen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 queen	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 queen	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
7	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 queen	amod
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 flown	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flown	aux
11	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 queen	acl:relcl
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 flown	compound:prt
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 moon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moon	det
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flown	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 flown	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a fairy queen		actually property	tree rules
2	fly down	past · perfect	a fairy queen		the moon		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from moon=Trajectory
3	find	to-infinitive	a fairy queen not said here	the old man			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was the sparrow-princess, all dressed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 princess	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 princess	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
6	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 princess	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sparrow	punct
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dressed	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 dressed	nsubj:pass
11	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 princess	acl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 dressed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the sparrow princess					tree rules
2	dress up	participle · passive	the sparrow princess not said here	all					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

yeah, she was the sparrow-princess, who'd been under a spell and was all dressed up in silk

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 princess	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 princess	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
6	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 princess	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sparrow	punct
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spell	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 spell	nsubj
11	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spell	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 spell	cop
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 spell	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spell	det
15	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 princess	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dressed	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	aux:pass
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 dressed	advmod
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 spell	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 dressed	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 silk	case
22	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the sparrow princess			tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the sparrow princess		a spell		tree rules
3	dress up	past · passive	the sparrow princess not said here		silk	all property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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