Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the m…

Upon what condition did the monkey consent to surrender his liver to the jelly fish?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, surrender · To what, where: monkey consent, liver, jelly fish

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1372 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the monkey tricks the jelly fish and escapes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consent	compound
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 surrender	mark
9	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 liver	nmod:poss
11	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surrender	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 fish	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
14	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fish	compound
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surrender	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	condition	the monkey consent					tree rules
2	surrender	to-infinitive	condition not said here	condition's liver	the jelly fish				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent liver=Theme to fish=Recipient

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

He agreed only if the jelly fish first begged him.

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 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	9 begged	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 begged	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 begged	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 begged	advmod
9	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 agreed	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begged	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 agreed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request a condition, not said to happen	past	the jelly fish		him = he			first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He would give it only if the jelly fish carried him back to the island on his back first.

The tree, 19 words

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 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 carried	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 carried	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
8	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	compound
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	nsubj
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 carried	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 island	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 island	det
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 island	nmod
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 carried	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	He	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	carry back a condition, not said to happen	past	the jelly fish	him = he		the island on fish's back		first property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to island=Destination

Option 3

He agreed to surrender it only after the jelly fish swore an oath of loyalty and service to him.

The tree, 19 words

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 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 surrender	mark
4	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agreed	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 surrender	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	11 swore	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 swore	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swore	nsubj
11	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surrender	advcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 oath	det
13	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swore	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 loyalty	case
15	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oath	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 service	cc
17	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oath	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 service	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 agreed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	He		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	surrender not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	swear	past	the jelly fish	a oath of loyalty and service to him	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He would not give it, but dared the jelly fish to take it.

The tree, 13 words

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	4 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dared	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 dared	cc
8	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
10	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fish	compound
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dared	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dared	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not give	would	He	it	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	dare	past	He not said here	the jelly fish	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	He not said here	fish	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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