Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

What was the Dragon King's response upon the failure of the first two arrows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: response, first two arrows · What happens: be, fail

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
4	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	compound
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 response	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 failure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 failure	det
10	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 response	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 arrows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrows	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 arrows	amod
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 arrows	nummod
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 failure	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Dragon King's response upon the failure of the first two arrows						tree rules
2	fail		the first two arrows						nom failure «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

He lost heart and began to tremble.

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tremble	mark
7	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	past	He	heart	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
2	begin	past	He not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tremble	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He ordered his soldiers to attack at once.

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	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	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	4 soldiers	nmod:poss
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 attack	mark
6	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 attack	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	He	his soldiers					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	attack not said to happen	to-infinitive	his soldiers not said here						vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He sent for more archers quickly.

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	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 archers	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 archers	amod
5	archers	archer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He					for more archers; quickly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He trembled.

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	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	He						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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