Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…
Wait, who dressed up as a man to flog him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, dress up, flog · To what, where: man
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 713 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki sells his wife, and his son takes revenge» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 dressed | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 flog | mark |
| 10 | flog | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dressed | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flog | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dress up | past | as a man | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | flog | to-infinitive | man | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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
The old fox who lives by the river, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fox | acl:relcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lives | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the old fox | by the river and innit | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
Option 2
Some dude, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 dude | det |
| 2 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dude | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The fox, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fox | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The wizard's apprentice from the far village, innit, and his friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apprentice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 wizard | case |
| 4 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 village | amod |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apprentice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 apprentice | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 friend | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 friend | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apprentice | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
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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