Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, My Lord Bag of Rice, part 1: a warri…

Which instruments accompanied the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruments · What happens: accompany · To what, where: feast

This is exam question 4 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 instruments	det
2	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 accompanied	nsubj
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 feast	det
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompanied	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 accompanied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	past	which instruments	the feast					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme

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

drums only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 drums	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

bells and drums rung by turtles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 drums	cc
3	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bells	conj
4	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 bells	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 turtles	case
6	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	participle		bells and drums not said here				by turtles	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by turtle=Location

Option 3

flutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flutes	flute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

koto and samisen played by carp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	koto	koto	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 samisen	cc
3	samisen	samisen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 koto	conj
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 koto	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 carp	case
6	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		koto and samisen not said here				by carp	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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