Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…

so Urashima's the kind geezer everyone takes the mick out of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Urashima · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 takes	advmod
2	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 takes	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 takes	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 everyone	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 everyone	amod
6	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everyone	compound
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mick	det
10	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 mick	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 out	fixed
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Urashima					take property	tree rules

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

yeah, he's dead nice, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nice	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	amod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					nice property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

Option 2

yeah, everyone takes the mick but he's a proper softie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mick	det
6	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 softie	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 softie	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 softie	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 softie	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 softie	amod
12	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	everyone	the mick					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mick=Theme
2	is a	present	he	a proper softie					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he's a proper softie who gives everything away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 softie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 softie	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 softie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 softie	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 softie	amod
7	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gives	nsubj
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 softie	acl:relcl
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 gives	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a proper softie					tree rules
2	give away	present	a proper softie	everything				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he's a proper softie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 softie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 softie	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 softie	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 softie	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 softie	amod
7	softie	softie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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