Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

what did the old wife cough up on the road, like she was dragging the box?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old wife, wife · What happens: do, cough up, drag · To what, where: road, box

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cough	nsubj
6	cough	cough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cough	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cough	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dragging	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 dragging	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dragging	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dragging	aux
15	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cough	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dragging	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	cough up	present	the old wife		the road	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on road=Destination
3	drag	past · progressive	wife	the box		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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

nothing, she just sat by the road and cried the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nothing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	nothing					by the road	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by road=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	nothing not said here				time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nothing, she just sat and rested a bunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nothing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rested	cc
7	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bunch	det
9	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rested	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	nothing						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	past	nothing not said here	a bunch					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bunch=Theme

Option 3

coins and a small snake that she shook off onto the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shook	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snake	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snake	amod
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 coins	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 shook	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	nsubj
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 shook	compound:prt
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake off	past	coins and a small snake	that		the path			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme onto path=Destination

Option 4

some gold coins that rattled out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 coins	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rattled	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 rattled	nsubj
5	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 rattled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle out	participle · passive		some gold coins					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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