Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…
Which creature did the Dragon King request the warrior destroy?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, Dragon King, warrior · What happens: do, request, destroy
This is exam question 2 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | compound |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 request | nsubj |
| 7 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warrior | det |
| 9 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroy | nsubj |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 request | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | request | present | the Dragon King | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | destroy | infinitive | the warrior | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
the centipede inhabiting Mount Mikami
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 centipede | det |
| 2 | centipede | centipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | inhabiting | inhabit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 centipede | acl |
| 4 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mikami | compound |
| 5 | Mikami | Mikami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inhabiting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | gerund | the centipede not said here | Mount Mikami | tree rules |
Option 2
the wild boar haunting the western valley
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boar | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boar | amod |
| 3 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | haunting | haunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 boar | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 valley | det |
| 6 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 valley | amod |
| 7 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haunting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | gerund | the wild boar not said here | the western valley | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus valley=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the serpent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 serpent | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the centipede
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 centipede | det |
| 2 | centipede | centipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1341-pg4018-part1/e2/