Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Why did the Daimio get so mad at the impostor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Daimio · What happens: do, get

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Daimio	det
4	Daimio	Daimio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 impostor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 impostor	det
10	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the Daimio					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The neighbor insulted his garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insulted	nsubj
3	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 garden	nmod:poss
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insulted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	past	the neighbor	neighbor's garden					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus garden=Experiencer

Option 2

He saw the neighbor was a liar

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	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbor	det
4	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liar	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 liar	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 liar	det
7	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the neighbor	a liar					tree rules

Option 3

The ashes went in his eyes and he was blinded by the dust for days

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ashes	det
2	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blinded	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blinded	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blinded	aux:pass
10	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 dust	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dust	det
13	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blinded	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blinded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the ashes			his eyes			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
2	blind	past · passive	the dust	he			day		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ashes went in his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ashes	det
2	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the ashes			his eyes			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eye=Location

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