Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…

Which term denotes the low bow that Urashima was unable to complete before the Princess?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: term, low bow · What happens: denote, be, complete · To what, where: low bow

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1346 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima rides a tortoise to the Sea King's palace, is welcomed, and is married to the Princess.» 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bow	det
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bow	amod
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 unable	nsubj
8	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 unable	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 unable	cop
10	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bow	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 complete	mark
12	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 unable	xcomp
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 Princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complete	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	which term	the low bow			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bow=Topic
2	is	past	the low bow			unable property	tree rules
3	complete	to-infinitive	the low bow not said here		before the Princess		vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Prostration before the throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prostration	prostration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 throne	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 throne	det
4	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prostration	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Obeisance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Deep courtesy bow of respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bow	amod
2	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bow	compound
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 respect	case
5	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bow	nmod

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

Option 4

Salute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salute	salute	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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