Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…
yo, why'd the monkey feel totally safe at home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: feel
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1374 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young crab takes revenge on the monkey who killed his father» 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 | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 feel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feel | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 9 safe | advmod |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 safe | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | infinitive | the monkey | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
cause the crabs seemed not to care
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crabs | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crabs | det |
| 3 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 care | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 care | mark |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| # | 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 | seem | past | the cause crabs | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not care | to-infinitive | the cause crabs not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
cause he was home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 home | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 home | cop |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 cause | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | home property | tree rules |
Option 3
cause the crabs looked not to suspect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crabs | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crabs | det |
| 3 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 suspect | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 suspect | mark |
| 7 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looked | xcomp |
| # | 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 | look | past | the cause crabs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not suspect | to-infinitive | the cause crabs not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
cause the crabs swore they'd never hurt him at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swore | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crabs | det |
| 3 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 hurt | advmod |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swore | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hurt | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | the crabs not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | swear | past | the crabs | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not hurt | would | crabs = crab | him = he | all | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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