Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: th…

why did the monkey stay home all those days?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: stay

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stay	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 days	det:predet
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past · do-support	the monkey				day	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 was scared the crab's family would come after 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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crab	det
5	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 crab	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	come	would	the crab's family				after crab		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was afraid of the crab's family

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 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 family	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 family	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 crab	case
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the crab's family; afraid property	tree rules

Option 3

he was scared the crab's family would come after him for revenge

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crab	det
5	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 crab	case
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 revenge	case
13	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	come	would	the crab's family				after crab	for revenge	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he feared the crab's family was coming

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crab	det
4	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 crab	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past · progressive	the crab's family						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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