Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…
Describe the setting in which the warrior was entertained by the Dragon King.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Dragon King · What happens: describe, entertain · To what, where: setting, warrior
This is exam question 3 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 | Describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 setting | det |
| 3 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Describe | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 entertained | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warrior | det |
| 7 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entertained | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entertained | aux:pass |
| 9 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 setting | acl:relcl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | compound |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 entertained | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Describe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | imperative | you not said here | the setting | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent setting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | entertain | past · passive | the Dragon King | the warrior | the setting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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
a silver tower above the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | compound |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a marble palace beneath the lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 palace | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a wooden castle on the hill top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 castle | amod |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | compound |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 castle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a vast marble palace beneath the lake with golden gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palace | amod |
| 3 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | compound |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gates | case |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gates | amod |
| 10 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 palace | nmod |
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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