Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…

The old lady, was she dodgy at first?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1363 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1: a lost priest finds a lonely hut and a forbidden room» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lady	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	cop
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dodgy	nsubj
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 dodgy	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old lady					dodgy 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

Nah, she was dead keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	dead keen					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, she was dead welcoming from the start, though later she got a bit odd and creepy

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	welcoming	welcome	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dead	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 welcoming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
11	though	though	ADV	_	14 got	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 got	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 odd	obl:unmarked
17	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 got	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 creepy	cc
19	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		dead property	tree rules
2	welcome	gerund	she not said here	the start		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	she		late, odd, though property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	be		she not said here			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she was welcoming straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 welcoming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 welcoming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 welcoming	aux
5	welcoming	welcome	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 welcoming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	welcome	past · progressive	she					away property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was well reluctant before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 reluctant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reluctant	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reluctant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reluctant	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 reluctant	advmod
6	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 reluctant	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					before, reluctant, well property	tree rules

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