Test 1 · ★ · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

Dude, did Kintaro's animal crew really climb trees to watch him go?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, animal crew, crew · What happens: do, climb, watch, go · To what, where: trees, crew

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1352 «The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 12: Kintaro becomes a hero, and a stepmother plots poison» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 crew	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kintaro	case
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crew	compound
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climb	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 climb	advmod
9	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 climb	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 watch	mark
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 climb	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watch	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 watch	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	climb	present	Kintaro's animal crew	trees	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive	Kintaro's animal crew not said here	crew	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	crew not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they totally did, every single one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	they	every single one				totally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

Option 2

Nope, no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yeah, they totally did, every single one of the animals climbed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 animals	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 animals	acl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	they	every single one of the animals				totally property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	climb up	participle		the animals not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they just stood at the bottom, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bottom	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	they			the bottom and lowkey			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location

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