Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

What's the big lesson, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big lesson

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1671 «Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60: the old man's gift and the greedy wife's trip» 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	5 lesson	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lesson	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	5 lesson	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lesson	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the big lesson					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 · ← Mova's choice

if you are greedy and cruel to others, you will lose everything you ever had in your life

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 greedy	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 greedy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greedy	cop
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lose	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cruel	cc
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greedy	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 others	case
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cruel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 greedy	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lose	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 lose	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 everything	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 life	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 life	nmod:poss
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you				greedy property	tree rules
2	be		you not said here				to others	tree rules
3	lose	future	you	everything	your life			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	have	past	you			ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

greedy folk can end up in a right mess, so always treat animals and strangers with kindness

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folk	amod
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 mess	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mess	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mess	amod
9	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 treat	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 treat	advmod
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 treat	advmod
13	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 end	conj
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 treat	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strangers	cc
16	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 animals	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 kindness	case
18	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	can	greedy folk					in a right mess result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mess=Result
2	treat	infinitive	greedy folk not said here		animals and strangers			with kindness; always property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient with kindness=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

greedy folk can end up in a right mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folk	amod
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 end	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 mess	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mess	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mess	amod
9	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	can	greedy folk					in a right mess result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in mess=Result

Option 4

kindness is always rewarded in life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rewarded	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rewarded	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 rewarded	advmod
4	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rewarded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reward	present · passive		kindness		life		always property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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