Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…

wait, why does she blame the sparrow lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, blame · To what, where: sparrow

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blame	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 blame	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blame	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blame	nsubj
6	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sparrow	det
8	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blame	obj
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blame	present · do-support	she	the sparrow					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=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

cos she's a right grumpy mare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mare	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mare	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mare	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mare	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mare	amod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mare	amod
7	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cos	a right grumpy mare					tree rules

Option 2

cos she's a proper cheeky moaner who never stops nagging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moaner	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moaner	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moaner	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moaner	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaner	amod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaner	amod
7	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 stops	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stops	advmod
10	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moaner	acl:relcl
11	nagging	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	cos	a proper cheeky moaner	tree rules
2	not stop	present	a proper cheeky moaner		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	nag	gerund	a proper cheeky moaner not said here		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos she's a proper cheeky moaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moaner	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moaner	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moaner	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaner	amod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moaner	amod
7	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a proper cheeky moaner					tree rules

Option 4

cos she's always been a moaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moaner	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moaner	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 moaner	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 moaner	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moaner	det
7	moaner	moaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a moaner				always property	tree rules

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