Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: t…

why did the old man run home

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man · What happens: run

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1384 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: the old man dances for the demons and loses his wen, and his wicked neighbour sets out to copy him» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 run	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · do-support	the old man					home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

cuz he was so happy, he couldn't walk and had to dance the whole way

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 walk	advmod
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 dance	mark
14	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dance	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz		happy property	tree rules
2	not walk	could	he			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	he not said here			tree rules
4	dance	to-infinitive	he not said here	the whole way		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

Option 2

cuz the wife was waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cuz	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	wait	past · progressive	the wife						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

cuz he was late for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					for dinner; late property	tree rules

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

cuz he was so happy, he couldn't walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 walk	advmod
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					happy property	tree rules
2	not walk	could	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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