Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the m…

Wait, why did the jelly fish get punished anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, punish · To what, where: jelly fish

This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 punished	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 punished	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 punished	aux
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=Plur	9 punished	nsubj:pass
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 punished	aux:pass
9	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 punished	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	punish	past · passive · do-support		the jelly fish				anyway property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

he spilled the secret

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 spilled	nsubj
2	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	he	the secret					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location secret=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he went to visit the monkey without asking first

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 visit	mark
4	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 visit	obj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 visit	advcl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 asking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	to-infinitive	he not said here	the monkey		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Co-Agent
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	he not said here		first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he blabbed everything to the monkey and the dragon

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 blabbed	nsubj
2	blabbed	blab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 blabbed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blabbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragon	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blab speech: other	past	he	everything	the monkey and the dragon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to monkey=Recipient

Option 4

he let the monkey out of the tree

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 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	he	the monkey		the tree			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme

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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