Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly Fish: the m…

Ngl, why are jellyfish all squishy now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 squishy	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 squishy	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 squishy	cop
5	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 squishy	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 squishy	advmod
7	squishy	squishy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 squishy	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 squishy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ngl				now	all, squishy property	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

cause the Dragon King ordered it long ago on their ancestor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ordered	reparandum
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	obj
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 ordered	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ancestor	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ancestor	nmod:poss
11	ancestor	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	order	past	the Dragon King	it		their ancestor		ago property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

because the monkey tricked them and stole all their bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 tricked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stole	cc
7	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tricked	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bones	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bones	nmod:poss
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the monkey	them = they					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	steal	past	the monkey not said here	their bones					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause their bones got pulled out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bones	nmod:poss
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulled	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux:pass
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cause	ccomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	pull out	past · passive		their bones					tree rules

Option 4

because their bones got taken out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 taken	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bones	nmod:poss
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 taken	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past · passive		their bones					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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