Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

Real talk, why didn't the old man punish his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: not punish · To what, where: wife

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 punish	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 punish	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 punish	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 punish	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punish	nsubj
10	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punish	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not punish	past · do-support	the old man	man's wife					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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

Because the fairy told him he must never punish any person at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 punish	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 punish	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 punish	advmod
9	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 punish	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the fairy		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not punish	must	fairy	any person		all			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient

Option 2

He felt pity for the cruel wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 wife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He	pity				for the cruel wife	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for wife=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was too kind-hearted to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hearted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hearted	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	6 hearted	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hearted	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
6	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hearted	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					hearted property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

He loved her too much to act

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loved	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 act	mark
7	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	He	her = she					tree rules
2	act	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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