Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

ok but why did the old man not get mad at the neighbour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not get

This is test 12 · ★ 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	_	9 get	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 get	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 neighbour	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 neighbour	det
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	past · do-support						mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He was too good and gentle, so he simply forgave him

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 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gentle	cc
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 forgave	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 forgave	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgave	nsubj
10	simply	simply	ADV	_	11 forgave	advmod
11	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		good property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	forgive	past	he	him = he	simply property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

He was too good and gentle to fight back at anyone

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 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gentle	cc
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 fight	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		good property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	fight back	to-infinitive	He not said here	anyone		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was too tired to care

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 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 care	mark
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tired	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules
2	care	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was too good and gentle

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 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gentle	cc
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					good property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

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