Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…
What name is given to the warrior in the opening passage of the tale?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tale · What happens: give, pass · To what, where: warrior, opening passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1341 «Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warrior walks over a sleeping dragon and meets the Dragon King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 warrior | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warrior | det |
| 7 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 10 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passage | amod |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tale | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passage | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the warrior | the opening passage of the tale | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to warrior=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pass | the tale | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Tawara Toda, My Lord Bag of Rice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tawara | Tawara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Toda | Toda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tawara | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bag | punct |
| 4 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Bag | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bag | compound |
| 6 | Bag | Bag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tawara | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Rice | case |
| 8 | Rice | Rice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tomo Tada, Lord Bag of Grain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomo | Tomo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Tada | Tada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tomo | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bag | punct |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bag | compound |
| 5 | Bag | Bag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tomo | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Grain | case |
| 7 | Grain | Grain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Tawara Toda, the famous warrior, My Lord Bag of Rice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tawara | Tawara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Toda | Toda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tawara | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warrior | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warrior | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | amod |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tawara | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bag | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bag | compound |
| 10 | Bag | Bag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rice | case |
| 12 | Rice | Rice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tawara Toda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tawara | Tawara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Toda | Toda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tawara | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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