Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

So why did the wife get lost on her way there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: do, get, lose · To what, where: wife, way

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	acl:relcl
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wife	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 way	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		the wife		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	get	present	the wife not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	lose	participle		the wife not said here	wife's way	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

she didn't know the way at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	she	the way		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 2

the path was hidden by thick mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 mist	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mist	amod
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive	thick mist	the path					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

the path had been swept away by a storm and she had to wander through the trees

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 path	det
2	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 swept	aux:pass
5	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 swept	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 storm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wander	mark
14	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wander	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sweep away	past · perfect · passive	a storm	the path		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
2	have	past	she				tree rules
3	wander	to-infinitive	she not said here		the trees		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she was rushing and kept missing the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rushing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushing	aux
3	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushing	conj
6	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rush	past · progressive	she		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	she not said here		tree rules
3	miss	gerund	she not said here	the path	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus

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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