Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

ngl, how did the crab finish him off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crab · What happens: finish off · To what, where: ngl

This is test 9 · ★ 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	7 finish	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 finish	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 finish	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finish	nsubj
7	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 finish	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 finish	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past · do-support	the crab	ngl				ngl vocative	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality

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

cut off his head with the claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claws	det
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	his head				with the claws	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 2

split his skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	split	split	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 skull	nmod:poss
3	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 split	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	imperative	you not said here	his skull					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cut off his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 cut	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	imperative	you not said here	his head					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

Option 4

he pinched him and cut off his head

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 pinched	nsubj
2	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pinched	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cut	cc
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pinched	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	past	he	him = he					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	cut off	past	he not said here	his head					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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