Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

bruh the neighbour said he wanted cakes for Shiro, was he fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour · What happens: say, want, be · To what, where: cakes, fr · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbour	det
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wanted	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Shiro	case
9	Shiro	Shiro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cakes	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fr	cop
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fr	nsubj
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the neighbour			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	neighbour	cakes	for Shiro	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cake=Theme
3	is a	past	neighbour	fr		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 · ← Mova's choice

No, he only wanted the mortar and the cakes too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mortar	det
7	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cakes	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cakes	det
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mortar	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the mortar and the cakes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mortar=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, he just wanted the mortar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mortar	det
7	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the mortar					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mortar=Theme

Option 3

No, he wanted the mortar too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mortar	det
6	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the mortar					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mortar=Theme

Option 4

No, he just wanted the mortar for himself and lied about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mortar	det
7	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 wanted	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lied	cc
11	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the mortar				for himself = he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mortar=Theme
2	lie	past	he not said here					about mortar	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location

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