Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

Bruh, what did he tell the buyer about the fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: tell · To what, where: buyer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buyer	det
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 fox	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fox	det
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buyer	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	he	the buyer				about the fox	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient buyer=Topic

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

He said she was sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sleeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeping	aux
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	past · progressive	she						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She's dead bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bro	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bro	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	dead bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She wasn't really dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dead	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	She					dead property	tree rules

Option 4

She's gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gone	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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