Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

why did the sparrow get her tongue cut?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, cut · To what, where: sparrow

This is test 13 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrow	det
4	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux:pass
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tongue	nmod:poss
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the sparrow					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Eventuality
2	cut	present · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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

cuz she ate some rice-paste by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 paste	det
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paste	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rice	punct
7	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 mistake	case
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	cuz	some rice paste				by mistake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paste=Patient

Option 2

cuz the old wife caught her stealing rice-paste from the pot on purpose

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
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	1 cuz	appos
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 caught	xcomp
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paste	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 rice	punct
10	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stealing	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 pot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pot	det
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stealing	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stealing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	cuz	wife					tree rules
2	steal	gerund	cuz not said here	rice paste		the pot		on purpose	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paste=Theme from pot=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cuz she broke the old wife's bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bowl	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wife	case
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	cuz	the old wife's bowl					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Patient

Option 4

cuz she ate the whole family's rice-paste on purpose and then lied about it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 family	amod
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paste	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 family	case
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paste	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 rice	punct
10	paste	paste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lied	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lied	advmod
15	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	cuz	the whole family's rice paste		purpose			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paste=Patient
2	lie	past	cuz not said here				then	about purpose	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location

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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