Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

did Momotaro just give the dog half a cake, that's sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Momotaro, that · What happens: give, be · To what, where: cake, dog

This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 cake	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cake	det
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sus	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 sus	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sus	cop
13	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Momotaro	half cake	the dog				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient cake=Theme
2	is	present	that					suspect property	tree rules

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

Yeah, he gave him half of one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	half of one	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he gave him half of one cake and then ate the rest with the monkey

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cake	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cake	nummod
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 half	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ate	advmod
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 monkey	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkey	det
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	half of one cake	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=Theme
2	eat	past	he not said here	the rest			then	with the monkey	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he gave him half of one, because he wanted the dog to come along

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
17	along	along	ADV	_	16 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	half of one	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=Theme
2	want	past	he	the dog			tree rules
3	come along not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dog not said here			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he split a cake with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cake	det
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	he	a cake				with him = he	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with he=Instrument

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