Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

Was the son happy at the end or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: son

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 son	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	csubj
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 end	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the son					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

Nah, he was sad his dad was gone for good now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	nsubj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	obl
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules
2	is	past	sad				now	for good; gone property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he missed his dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 missed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	nsubj
4	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	he	his dad					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dad=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, but he was still angry at the king for everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 angry	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 angry	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 everything	case
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				still	at the king for everything; angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his mum was avenged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 avenged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 avenged	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avenged	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 avenged	aux:pass
6	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avenge	past · passive		his mum					tree rules

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