Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…
What was in the chest? Like, was it wicked?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chest · What happens: be · To what, where: chest
This is test 7 · ★ 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: What was in the chest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 chest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chest | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chest | det |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chest | 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.
Sentence 2: Like, was it wicked?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 wicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wicked | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wicked | nsubj |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chest | wicked property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
gold and jewels piled up to the lid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 jewels | cc |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gold | conj |
| 4 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jewels | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 piled | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lid | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | participle | jewels not said here | to the lid | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
gold and jewels piled up to the lid, and there were also strange glowing stones from the sea
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 jewels | cc |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gold | conj |
| 4 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jewels | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 piled | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lid | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 strange | cop |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 strange | advmod |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | glowing | glow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 strange | advcl |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 glowing | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | participle | jewels not said here | to the lid | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | gold and jewels | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glow | gerund | gold and jewels not said here | stones | the sea | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
Option 3
heaps of coins and dusty rubies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 coins | case |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 heaps | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rubies | cc |
| 5 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rubies | amod |
| 6 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 heaps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a dark heap of old bones and a few rusty coins piled high under a cloth of silk
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heap | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heap | amod |
| 3 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bones | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bones | amod |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heap | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 coins | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coins | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coins | amod |
| 10 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coins | amod |
| 11 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bones | conj |
| 12 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 coins | acl |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 piled | xcomp |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 cloth | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloth | det |
| 16 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 silk | case |
| 18 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cloth | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | participle | a few rusty coins not said here | a cloth of silk | high property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under cloth=Destination |
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