Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the…

At which location does the old man find the sparrow after his prolonged search?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, find, prolong, search · To what, where: old man, location, sparrow

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1343 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 3: the old man finds the sparrow, who is really a fairy» 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 does	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrow	det
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 search	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 search	nmod:poss
13	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 search	amod
14	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sparrow	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	present		the old man	which location		tree rules
2	find	infinitive		the sparrow		after man's prolonged search	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Topic
3	prolong	participle					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	search		man				nom search «act transitive»: poss=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 top of a tall mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mountain	amod
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 top	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The edge of a large bamboo wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 edge	det
2	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wood	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
6	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wood	compound
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 edge	nmod

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

Option 3

The middle of the village square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 square	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 square	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 square	compound
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 middle	nmod

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

Option 4

The hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hills	det
2	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	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.

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