Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet…
What did the guests stare at when it went bang?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guests, it · What happens: do, stare, go · To what, where: bang
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1798 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet bursts open and the wedding ends happily» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stare | nsubj |
| 5 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 10 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stare | present | the guests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | it | bang | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bang=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The floor full of stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 floor | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stones | case |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The guests' shocked faces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 faces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 guests | case |
| 4 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 faces | amod |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The floor covered in glittering stones from the helmet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 floor | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stones | case |
| 5 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stones | amod |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 helmet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 helmet | det |
| 9 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | the floor not said here | from the helmet; in glittering stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The bridegroom, the bride, and the floor all covered in stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bride | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bride | det |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bridegroom | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 floor | det |
| 9 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 covered | advmod |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stones | case |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle · passive | the bridegroom and the bride | in stones; all property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in stone=Theme |
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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