Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

so like why was the fisher so salty?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
2	like	like	ADP	_	6 fisher	case
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fisher	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fisher	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fisher	det
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						like the fisher	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 · ✓ the right answer

he was bad tempered

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	3 bad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bad	cop
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bad	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bad property	tree rules
2	temper	participle	he not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he hated his brother and wanted him dead

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	his brother					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
2	want	past	he not said here	him = he				dead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3

he was always angry and wanted revenge

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 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wanted	cc
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	conj
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					always, angry property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here	revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 4

he was quite cruel

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

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

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