Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

So the neighbor thought it was easy-peasy, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbor · What happens: think, be · To what, where: easy peasy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbor	det
3	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 peasy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 peasy	cop
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peasy	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	peasy	peasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peasy	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the neighbor						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	neighbor	easy peasy					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

Yep, he reckoned it was the simplest task ever, so he bragged to everybody in town about it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 task	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 task	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	ccomp
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 task	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bragged	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 bragged	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bragged	nsubj
14	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckoned	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 everybody	case
16	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 bragged	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 town	case
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 everybody	nmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 town	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	reckon	past	he				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the simplest task		ever	tree rules
3	brag speech: other	past	he		everybody		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to everybody=Recipient

Option 2

Yep, he figured it was a quick and easy job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 job	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 job	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 job	det
8	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 job	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 easy	cc
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quick	conj
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figured	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	it	a quick job					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he reckoned it was the simplest task ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 task	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 task	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckoned	ccomp
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 task	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the simplest task			ever		tree rules

Option 4

Yep, he thought it was a simple job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 job	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 job	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 job	det
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 job	amod
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a simple job					tree rules

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