Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man with the Wen, part 44: t…

what was the chief's reaction tho

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reaction, chief · What happens: be, react

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reaction	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 chief	case
6	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
7	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the chief's reaction						tree rules
2	react		the chief						nom reaction «process intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

he said he loved the dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dance	det
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love	past	he	the dance					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus

Option 2

he said he'd never seen a dancer like that and wanted him back soon

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dancer	det
8	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 seen	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 wanted	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see	past · perfect	he	a dancer	like that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancer=Stimulus
3	want back	past	he not said here	him = he	soon property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he said he'd never seen a dancer like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dancer	det
8	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see	past · perfect	he	a dancer				like that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancer=Stimulus

Option 4

he clapped and then asked him for a drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 asked	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 drink	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drink	det
9	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here		him = he		then	for a drink	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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