Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

did the old wife's family like her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: family

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old wife's family				like wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Eventuality

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

nah, they hated her and wanted payback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	conj
8	payback	payback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	want	past	they not said here	payback					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot payback=Theme

Option 2

yep, they loved her and had a party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	have	past	they not said here	a party					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient

Option 3

nah, they hated her and wanted revenge for every cruel thing she ever did to them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	conj
8	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 thing	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 thing	det
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 did	advmod
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	her = she				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	want	past	they not said here	revenge			for every cruel thing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme
3	do	past	she	every cruel thing not said here	them = they	ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they hated her so much they plotted to make her pay for everything she did

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 plotted	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plotted	nsubj
9	plotted	plot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plotted	xcomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 everything	case
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 pay	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	her = she		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	plot	past	they			tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	they not said here	her = she		tree rules
4	pay	infinitive	her = she not said here		for everything	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for everything=Theme
5	do	past	she			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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