Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

Real talk, why did the old woman keep begging?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: keep, beg

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 keep	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
10	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the old woman						tree rules
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the old woman not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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

Because the ogre had cursed her family for a century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 cursed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cursed	aux
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 century	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 century	det
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past · perfect · passive		the ogre			century		tree rules

Option 2

She doubted the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	She	the story					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 3

She wished to mourn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mourn	mark
4	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mourn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	She						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	mourn not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

Her wish was to see it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wish	nmod:poss
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Her wish	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	wish		Her = she						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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