Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…

Did the priest keep his promise?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: keep, promise · To what, where: promise

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priest	det
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 promise	nmod:poss
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the priest	priest's promise					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	promise		priest						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Yeah, he stayed right where he was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 where	advmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 where	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he					right, where property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he kept to his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he					to his word	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he crept over to have a look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 crept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crept	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep over	past	he					over property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	he not said here	a look					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 4

Nah, he crept over to have a look, then ran off screaming to the village

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 crept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crept	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ran	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	creep over	past	he				over property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	he not said here	a look				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
3	run off	past	he not said here			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scream speech: express	gerund	he not said here		the village			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to village=Recipient

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