Test 7 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

nah, what did the Tanuki say to get the wife to free it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tanuki · What happens: do, say, get · To what, where: Tanuki, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tanuki	det
6	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 free	mark
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Tanuki				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	to-infinitive	the Tanuki not said here	Tanuki	the wife	free property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent wife=Beneficiary it=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 · ← Mova's choice

rice pounding is way too much for weak women like you, bro, so let me go

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounding	compound
2	pounding	pounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 women	case
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 much	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 women	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 you	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 way	acl:relcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	rice pounding	way	tree rules
2	let	infinitive	way not said here	me	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

women shouldn't pound rice, that's cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rice	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rice	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 rice	advmod
4	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rice	compound
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cap	det
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cap	cop
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that cap					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

rice pounding is too much for weak women

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pounding	compound
2	pounding	pounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 much	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 much	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 women	case
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 women	amod
8	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 much	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	rice pounding					for weak women; much property	tree rules

Option 4

if you let me loose I'll pound all the rice in the whole village for you

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	3 let	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pound	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 pound	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pound	aux
8	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rice	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rice	det
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pound	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 village	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 village	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 village	amod
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rice	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 village	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	you	me					tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	me not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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