Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

Why'd the little son get so salty with his dad?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little son · What happens: get

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 salty	advmod
8	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 dad	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salty	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the little son					salty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Dad stole his favourite toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toy	nmod:poss
4	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toy	amod
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Dad	Dad's favourite toy					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location toy=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dad wouldn't share a bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 share	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 share	advmod
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bite	det
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	would	Dad	a bite					tree rules

Option 3

Dad ate all the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Dad	all food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					hungry property	tree rules

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