Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the prie…

Dang, what did the monkey's boss do with the butcher?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: do · To what, where: boss

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boss	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 monkey	case
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 butcher	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 butcher	det
12	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dang	the monkey's boss					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Eventuality
2	do	present	Dang not said here					with the butcher	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

sent him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past		him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

paid him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past		him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sent him packing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sent	obj
3	packing	packing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		packing	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination packing=Theme

Option 4

fired him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 fired	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire	past		him = he					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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