Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…
did the ogre grab Watanabe straight away?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogre · What happens: grab · To what, where: Watanabe
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1382 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro storms the Demon King's castle, frees the captives and takes the devil chief home» 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 grab | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogre | det |
| 3 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grab | nsubj |
| 4 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Watanabe | Watanabe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grab | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 grab | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 grab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past · do-support | the ogre | Watanabe | away property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watanabe=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he grabbed his helmet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | his helmet | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, he grabbed his hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | his hat | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he snatched Watanabe by the shoulders and dragged him up the gate steps
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 snatched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 snatched | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 snatched | nsubj |
| 4 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Watanabe | Watanabe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 snatched | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 shoulders | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoulders | det |
| 8 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 snatched | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dragged | cc |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 snatched | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragged | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 dragged | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 steps | det |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steps | compound |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dragged | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | he | Watanabe | by the shoulders | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watanabe=Theme | |||
| 2 | drag up | past | he not said here | Watanabe | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, he grabbed his arm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | his arm | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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