Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

fr, what did the Tanuki do to the wife?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, Tanuki · What happens: do

This is test 8 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the Tanuki					to the wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

he tied her to the loom, fr

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tied	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 loom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loom	det
6	loom	loom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loom	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	her = she				to the loom and fr	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to loom=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

pounded her in the mortar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pounded	pound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pounded	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mortar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mortar	det
5	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pound	past		her = she		the mortar			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mortar=Trajectory

Option 3

ate her up, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 ate	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 ate	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ate	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past		her = she				bro vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

he ran off, fr

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fr	punct
5	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he	fr					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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