Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Was the Dragon King happy, or was he moping on his own?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon King, King · What happens: be, mope · To what, where: own

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moping	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 moping	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 moping	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 moping	nsubj
10	moping	mope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happy	parataxis
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moping	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Dragon King					happy property	tree rules
2	mope	past · progressive	King			King's own			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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

Nope, he was cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheerful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheerful	cop
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was moping, he reigned alone

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 moping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moping	aux
3	moping	mope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moping	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reigned	nsubj
6	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moping	ccomp
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 reigned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mope	past · progressive	He						tree rules
2	reign	past	he					alone property	tree rules

Option 3

He was bored, he ruled with pride

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ruled	nsubj
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 pride	case
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules
2	rule	past	he					with pride	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was happy

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 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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