Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

Describe the reason the animals of the road were forbidden from accompanying the hero on his journey.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, reason, his · What happens: describe, forbid, accompany, journey · To what, where: reason, animals, hero, journey

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1380 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves home and gains a dog» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 forbidden	nsubj:pass
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forbidden	aux:pass
10	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 accompanying	mark
12	accompanying	accompany	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 forbidden	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accompanying	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 journey	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 journey	nmod:poss
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accompanying	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	forbid	past · passive	the reason not said here	the animals of the road		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	accompany	gerund	the reason not said here	the hero	his journey	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme on journey=Destination
4	journey		his = he			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 dog and the monkey quarrelled and could not agree, so the hero had to separate them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 monkey	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	quarrelled	quarrelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monkey	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 agree	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 agree	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 agree	advmod
10	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quarrelled	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 had	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 separate	mark
17	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 separate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not agree speech: agree	could	the dog and the monkey not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the dog and the monkey		tree rules
3	separate	to-infinitive	the dog and the monkey not said here	dog	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

The dog and the monkey quarrelled and could not agree, and the boy said they were too weak to fight

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quarrelled	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 monkey	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	quarrelled	quarrelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 agree	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 agree	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 agree	advmod
10	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quarrelled	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quarrelled	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 weak	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 weak	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 weak	advmod
19	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fight	mark
21	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not agree speech: agree	could			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dog	weak property	tree rules
4	fight	to-infinitive	dog not said here		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dog and the monkey quarrelled and could not agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quarrelled	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 monkey	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	quarrelled	quarrelled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 agree	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 agree	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 agree	advmod
10	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quarrelled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not agree speech: agree	could							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were enemies and would not share food

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 enemies	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enemies	cop
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 share	cc
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 share	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 share	advmod
7	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enemies	conj
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	enemies					tree rules
2	not share	would	They not said here	food					tree rules

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