Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

Bro, why did the monkey's owner wanna sell him off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, wanna, sell off · To what, where: owner, Bro

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanna	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owner	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 monkey	case
8	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanna	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sell	iobj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 sell	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 wanna	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past		the monkey's owner		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Eventuality
2	wanna	past	Bro			tree rules
3	sell off	infinitive	Bro not said here		Bro	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

because he had grown old and could no longer dance for crowds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 grown	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dance	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dance	aux
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 dance	advmod
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 crowds	case
12	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	he					for crowds; old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was too old and had lost all his tricks

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 old	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 tricks	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tricks	nmod:poss
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		old property	tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	he not said here	his tricks		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
3	trick		his = he			nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he bit people

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 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	he	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was too old

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	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					old property	tree rules

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