Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

be real, why did the peasant get mad at the Tanuki?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, peasant · What happens: be, get

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1617 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: the hare burns the Tanuki's back» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 real	conj
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Tanuki	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tanuki	det
12	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	get	past · do-support	the peasant					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

it stole his rice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rice	nmod:poss
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	it	his rice					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rice=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it kept eating the hare's food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hare	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	eat	gerund		the hare's food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

it burned the hare's field, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burned	nsubj
2	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 hare	case
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	it	the hare's field and fr					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it ate his dinner, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dinner	nmod:poss
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	it	his dinner and bro					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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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