Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 5: the old woman…
Specify the destination to which the tortoise proposes to convey Urashima.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, tortoise · What happens: specify, propose, convey · To what, where: destination, Urashima
This is exam question 4 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 destination | det |
| 3 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 proposes | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tortoise | det |
| 7 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proposes | nsubj |
| 8 | proposes | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 destination | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 convey | mark |
| 10 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proposes | xcomp |
| 11 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 convey | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the destination | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent destination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | propose | present | the tortoise | the destination | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | convey | to-infinitive | the tortoise not said here | Urashima | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent urashima=Topic |
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 deep sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sea | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sea bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bed | compound |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Palace of the Dragon King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Palace | det |
| 2 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | compound |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Palace | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Palace of the Sea God
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Palace | det |
| 2 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 God | det |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 God | compound |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 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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