Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

What was the son going on about with his powers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: son · What happens: be, go on

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 son	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	about	about	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 powers	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 powers	nmod:poss
10	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the son						tree rules
2	go on	gerund	the son not said here					with his powers; about property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Said he's a wizard as good as dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wizard	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wizard	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wizard	det
5	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	ccomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wizard	amod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 dad	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	he	a wizard					tree rules

Option 2

Said he's better at magic than dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 magic	case
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 dad	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he			magic		than dad; good property	tree rules

Option 3

Said he can fly and turn invisible and beat the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turn	cc
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	conj
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beat	cc
9	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	can	he			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	infinitive	he not said here		invisible property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	beat	past		the king		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme

Option 4

Said he knows every spell in the forest and can talk to the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spell	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talk	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 talk	aux
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 moon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moon	det
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	he	every spell	the forest		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spell=Stimulus
3	talk	can	he not said here			to the moon	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to moon=Co-Agent

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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