Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, part 40: Momotaro leaves h…

Momotaro just put himself between them, like a referee, lowkey cool

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Momotaro · What happens: put · To what, where: Momotaro

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 put	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 referee	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 referee	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 referee	det
10	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lowkey	punct
12	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 referee	conj
13	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 referee	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Momotaro	Momotaro				between them = they; like a referee and lowkey	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between they=Destination

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

Yeah, he stopped the fight and talked to the monkey, then he gave the monkey a cake too

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 gave	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monkey	det
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cake	det
19	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	15 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	the fight				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector fight=Eventuality
2	talk	past	he not said here				to the monkey	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to monkey=Co-Agent
3	give	past	monkey	a cake	the monkey	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient cake=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he stopped the fight and talked to the monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	the fight					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector fight=Eventuality
2	talk	past	he not said here					to the monkey	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to monkey=Co-Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he got between them and told them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					between them = they	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell off speech: assert	past	he not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he stopped the fight and talked to the monkey, and then both of them agreed to join the journey

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 agreed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 agreed	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 agreed	advmod
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 agreed	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 both	nmod
18	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 join	mark
20	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreed	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 journey	det
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	the fight			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector fight=Eventuality
2	talk	past	he not said here			to the monkey	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to monkey=Co-Agent
3	agree speech: agree	past	both		then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	both not said here	the journey			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient

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