Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…

Why did he even open it, mind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: open · To what, where: it

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1347 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the box and grows old» 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 open	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 open	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 open	advmod
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 open	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mind	punct
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past · do-support	he	it				mind vocative	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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

He was desperate and told himself it was fine, so he gave in to temptation at last

The tree, 17 words

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	3 desperate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	cop
3	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 told	iobj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 gave	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 gave	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 temptation	case
16	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			desperate property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	himself = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
3	is	past				fine property	tree rules
4	give in	past	he		last	to temptation	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to temptation=Theme

Option 2

He was desperate and told himself it was fine, and he couldn't stop thinking about her

The tree, 17 words

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	3 desperate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	cop
3	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 told	iobj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stop	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stop	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stop	advmod
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 desperate	parataxis
16	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stop	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		desperate property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	himself = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
3	is	past			fine property	tree rules
4	not stop	could	he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	gerund	he not said here		about her = she	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about she=Topic

Option 3

He thought it would bring him back home

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bring back	would	it		him = he			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was desperate and told himself it was fine

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	3 desperate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	cop
3	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 desperate	conj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 told	iobj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		desperate property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here	himself = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
3	is	past			fine property	tree rules

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