Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

fr was the nosy neighbour spying through the bamboo hedge?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, nosy neighbour · What happens: be, spy · To what, where: nosy neighbour, bamboo hedge

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighbour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbour	det
4	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 neighbour	amod
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	spying	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 neighbour	acl
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 hedge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hedge	det
9	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hedge	compound
10	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spying	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 neighbour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr	the nosy neighbour					tree rules
2	spy	gerund	the nosy neighbour not said here			the bamboo hedge			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: 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

Yes, he watched the old man digging and then ran to tell the village

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 watched	obj
8	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 man	acl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ran	advmod
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ran	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	watch	past	he	the old man		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	dig	gerund	the old man not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	he not said here		then	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	he not said here	the village		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent village=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he watched the old man digging up the gold from the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 watched	obj
8	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 man	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 digging	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gold	det
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digging	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 hedge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hedge	det
14	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	he	the old man					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	dig up	gerund	the old man not said here	the gold		the hedge			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent gold=Result from hedge=Material

Option 3

Yes, he listened to the barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 listened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 barking	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barking	det
7	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	he					to the barking	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to barking=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he watched the old man digging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 watched	obj
8	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 man	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	he	the old man					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	dig	gerund	the old man not said here						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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