Test 2 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

wait, the chief just gave up, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, chief · What happens: wait, give up, innit

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give up	past	the chief	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive	you 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

he bowed and offered his horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 offered	cc
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horns	nmod:poss
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	he						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	he not said here	his horns					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent horn=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he kneeled and begged mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kneeled	nsubj
2	kneeled	kneele	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 begged	cc
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kneeled	conj
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneele	past	he						tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	he not said here	mercy					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he threw down his iron bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bar	nmod:poss
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bar	compound
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	he	his iron bar					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme

Option 4

he dropped his iron club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 club	nmod:poss
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 club	compound
5	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	his iron club					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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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