Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

ngl, how were the monkey and the old crab related?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, relate · To what, where: monkey, ngl

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 related	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 monkey	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 monkey	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crab	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crab	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crab	amod
10	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	conj
11	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 related	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the monkey					tree rules
2	relate	participle		ngl and the old crab					vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

they were cousins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cousins	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cousins	cop
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	cousins					tree rules

Option 2

they were rivals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rivals	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rivals	cop
3	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	rivals					tree rules

Option 3

they were old neighbors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 neighbors	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 neighbors	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 neighbors	amod
4	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	old neighbors					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they were best friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 friends	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	best friends					tree rules

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