Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…

Identify the person to whom the old woman first attributes responsibility for her misfortune.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: identify, attribute · To what, where: person, responsibility

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1345 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman is frightened and punished, and Urashima frees a tortoise and is invited under the sea» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 attributes	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attributes	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 attributes	advmod
10	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
11	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attributes	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 misfortune	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 misfortune	nmod:poss
14	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attributes	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	attribute	present	the old woman	responsibility				for woman's misfortune; first property	tree rules

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 tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sparrow	det
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Her son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	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.

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