Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: t…

pick a side, was the old man brave

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: pick, be · To what, where: side, old man

This is test 12 · ★ 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	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pick	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pick	obl
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	a side					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient
2	is a	past		the old man					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

kinda, he was just lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lucky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					kinda, lucky property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, he was just lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lucky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lucky property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, he was just lucky, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lucky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lucky	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 lucky	advmod
6	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lucky	punct
8	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 lucky	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lucky property	tree rules

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

yeah, he took a huge risk, no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 risk	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 risk	amod
7	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	a huge risk				no lie obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme

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