Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Did the old man get the ashes off his neighbor for free, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: get · To what, where: ashes

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 neighbor	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neighbor	nmod:poss
10	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 free	case
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neighbor	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	5 get	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the old man	the ashes				off man's neighbor for free	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ash=Stimulus

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

Nope, he paid gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	gold					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset

Option 2

Yeah, he begged and the neighbor refused it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 refused	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbor	det
7	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	the neighbor	it					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he paid with a sack of rice and coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 paid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 rice	case
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 coins	cc
11	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sack	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he					with a sack of rice and coins	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he asked and the neighbor said yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbor	det
7	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
9	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the neighbor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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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