Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

did the dog and pheasant do the heavy lifting?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: do · To what, where: heavy lifting

This is test 5 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pheasant	cc
5	pheasant	pheasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	conj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lifting	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lifting	amod
9	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the dog and pheasant	the heavy lifting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lifting=Eventuality

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, they hauled the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hauled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hauled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hauled	nsubj
4	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hauled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	past	they	the gold					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2

nah, they dragged the empty carts back to the village over the mountain pass

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carts	det
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carts	amod
7	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	4 dragged	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 pass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pass	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	compound
15	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	they	the empty carts		the mountain pass		to the village	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to village=Destination

Option 3

nah, the monkey carried it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the monkey	it					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they carried all the loot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 loot	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loot	det
7	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	they	all loot					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loot=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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