Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Tales, The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue, part 60:…

What did the old man choose, the big chest or the small one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: choose · To what, where: big chest

This is test 6 · ★ 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	6 choose	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	nsubj
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chest	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chest	amod
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chest	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · do-support	the old man	the big chest or the small one					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary chest=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

the small one, the one he hid under his cloak so his wife would never see it at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hid	nsubj
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 cloak	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cloak	nmod:poss
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hid	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the small one			his cloak			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cloak=Location
2	not see	would	his wife	cloak		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the small one, which he later hid in a barrel behind the old stable door at home

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hid	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hid	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hid	nsubj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 hid	advmod
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
15	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 home	case
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the small one			a barrel		behind the old stable door; at home; late property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Patient in barrel=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the small one, the one he hid under his cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hid	nsubj
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 cloak	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cloak	nmod:poss
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the small one			his cloak			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cloak=Location

Option 4

the big one, the one he left in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the big one					in the garden result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in garden=Result

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