Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

the dog said a monkey is useless in battle, harsh much

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, monkey · What happens: say, be · To what, where: battle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monkey	det
5	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	cop
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 battle	case
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 harsh	punct
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 useless	conj
12	much	much	ADV	_	11 harsh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a monkey	battle	useless property	tree rules
3	be		a monkey not said here			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

Yeah, he said the monkey was lazy and slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lazy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lazy	cop
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slow	cc
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the monkey	lazy property	tree rules
3	be		the monkey not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he called the monkey a total nuisance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nuisance	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nuisance	amod
9	nuisance	nuisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he		the monkey				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, that's harsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 harsh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 harsh	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 harsh	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harsh	cop
5	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					harsh property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said it wasn't dignified to follow him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dignified	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dignified	aux:pass
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dignified	advmod
8	dignified	dignify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 follow	mark
10	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dignified	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not dignify	past · passive		it	tree rules
3	follow	to-infinitive		him = he	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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