Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

How'd the tanuki get out the buyer's house?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tanuki · What happens: get out · To what, where: house

This is test 3 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tanuki	det
4	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buyer	det
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 buyer	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	would	the tanuki	the buyer's house				out 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 · ✓ the right answer

Squeezed through a window gap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	through	through	ADP	_	5 gap	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gap	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gap	compound
5	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeezed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	participle				a window gap			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory

Option 2

Crawled under the front gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crawled	crawl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
4	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gate	amod
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crawled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	participle				the front gate			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under gate=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Used a magic spell to vanish into thin air and reappear outside the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spell	det
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spell	amod
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Used	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vanish	mark
6	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Used	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vanish	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reappear	cc
11	reappear	reappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 vanish	conj
12	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past	a magic spell		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
2	vanish	to-infinitive		thin air	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reappear	infinitive		the house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location

Option 4

Snuck out by pretending to be the buyer's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snuck	snuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Snuck	compound:prt
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 pretending	mark
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Snuck	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	10 son	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 son	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buyer	det
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 buyer	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretending	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	snuck out	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	you not said here		tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	you not said here	the buyer's son	tree rules

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