Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

why did the monkey and the dog start fighting, fr

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkey · What happens: start, fight · To what, where: fr

This is test 7 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 start	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 start	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dog	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkey	conj
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 start	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past · do-support	the monkey and the dog						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fight	gerund	the monkey and the dog not said here	fr					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fr=Co-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 monkey stole the dog's cake, so yeah, fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cake	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dog	case
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fight	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fight	advmod
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 fight	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fight	punct
12	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	the monkey	the dog's cake				fight obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They always hate each other, it's their thing

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 hate	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 hate	advmod
3	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	parataxis
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 hate	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hate	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thing	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 thing	nmod:poss
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	They	each				always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	is a	present	it	their thing					tree rules

Option 3

Over the cakes, I guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 cakes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cakes	det
3	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guess	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cakes	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
6	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	I			the cakes			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Because they're fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 fighting	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fighting	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fighting	aux
4	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present · progressive	they						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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