Test 1 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

Yo, so why's the tanuki faking being dead, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tanuki · What happens: fake, be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 713 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki sells his wife, and his son takes revenge» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	10 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	10 dead	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dead	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tanuki	det
7	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
8	faking	fake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dead	nsubj
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the tanuki					dead property	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

Cos hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	X	_	root	root
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cos	goeswith

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Coz he's scared of the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of the fox; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

Coz he's tryna trick the buyer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 trick	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trick	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trick	cop
4	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 trick	dep
5	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buyer	det
7	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					trick property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coz they got no food left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they	no food					tree rules
2	leave	participle	no food not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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