Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…

he offers a smoke, but the tortoise doesn't do fags

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, tortoise · What happens: offer, not do · To what, where: smoke, fags

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1345 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman is frightened and punished, and Urashima frees a tortoise and is invited under the sea» 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offers	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 do	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tortoise	det
8	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offers	conj
12	fags	fag	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	he	a smoke					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme
2	not do	present · do-support	the tortoise	fags					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fag=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

cos tortoises don't smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoises	compound
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smoke	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smoke	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 smoke	advmod
5	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smoke	present · do-support	cos tortoises						vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

cos they hate the smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hate	nsubj
3	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	they	the smell					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus

Option 3

cos they don't drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 drink	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drink	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 drink	advmod
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	present · do-support	they						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

cos tortoises don't smoke, they just munch lettuce all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoises	compound
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smoke	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smoke	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 smoke	advmod
5	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 munch	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 munch	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 munch	advmod
9	munch	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smoke	parataxis
10	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 munch	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 munch	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not smoke	present · do-support	cos tortoises						vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	munch	present	tortoises = tortoise	lettuce			day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lettuce=Patient

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