Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: th…

yo did the monkey actually eat all the good persimmons or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo, monkey · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: monkey, good persimmons

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1373 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: the monkey eats the ripe persimmons and kills the crab» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 monkey	acl:relcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 persimmons	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 persimmons	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 persimmons	amod
10	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 persimmons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the monkey					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Eventuality
2	eat	present	the monkey not said here	all good persimmons				actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persimmon=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 · ← Mova's choice

yep, he ate the green ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the green ones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2

yeah, most of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 most	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 most	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he ate all the ripe ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ones	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	all ripe ones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

yep, he ate all the sweet ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ones	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	all sweet ones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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