Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: th…

did the crab even have a chance to climb the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, have, climb · To what, where: crab, chance, tree

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 climb	mark
9	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chance	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climb	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the crab	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Eventuality
2	have	present	a chance	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
3	climb	to-infinitive	the tree	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, his legs are for running, not climbing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 running	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 running	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 running	aux
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 running	mark
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbing	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 climbing	advmod
10	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 running	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present · progressive	his legs						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not climb	gerund	his legs not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, his legs are for running, not climbing, and the trunk was very slippery

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 running	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 running	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 running	aux
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 running	mark
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbing	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 climbing	advmod
10	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 running	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slippery	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slippery	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trunk	det
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slippery	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 slippery	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 slippery	advmod
17	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 running	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	present · progressive	his legs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not climb	gerund	his legs not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the trunk	slippery property	tree rules

Option 3

nope, his legs are too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 short	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	his legs					short property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, his legs are for walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 walking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walking	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 walking	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 walking	case
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	his legs					for walking	tree rules

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