Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

bruv, why'd Momotaro not let the chief off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Momotaro · What happens: not let off · To what, where: chief

This is test 3 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 let	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Momotaro	punct
5	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bruv	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chief	det
9	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let off	infinitive	Momotaro	the chief					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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 · ← Mova's choice

cos he'd eaten the villagers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 villagers	det
6	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive		cos					tree rules

Option 2

cos he'd burned the temple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj:pass
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	aux
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 temple	det
6	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · perfect · passive		cos					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cos he'd robbed the land for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robbed	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 robbed	nsubj:pass
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 robbed	aux
4	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robbed	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 robbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past · perfect · passive		cos			year		tree rules

Option 4

cos he'd stolen all the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stolen	nsubj
3	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gold	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stolen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		cos					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=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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