Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

ok so did the old man keep the gold?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: keep · To what, where: gold

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 keep	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gold	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the old man	the gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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

They carried it home and spent it all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spent	cc
6	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spent	obj
8	all	all	ADV	_	6 spent	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	They	it				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	spend	past	They not said here	it				all property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They carried it home and built a new house with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 built	cc
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	They	it				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	build	past	They not said here	a new house				with house	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with it=Source

Option 3

They gave it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	They	it				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They carried it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	They	it				home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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