Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro, part 6: Urashima ride…
What term describes the land where the Princess invited Urashima to dwell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, Princess, Urashima · What happens: describe, invite, dwell · To what, where: land, Urashima
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 describes | obj |
| 2 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 invited | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | nsubj |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 land | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Urashima | Urashima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 invited | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dwell | mark |
| 12 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invited | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | term | the land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | the Princess | Urashima | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent urashima=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dwell not said to happen | to-infinitive | Urashima not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 land of the immortals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 immortals | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 immortals | det |
| 5 | immortals | immortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 land | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Sea Land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Land | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Land | compound |
| 3 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The land of eternal youth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 land | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 4 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 youth | amod |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 land | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Paradise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paradise | paradise | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1346-pg4018-part6/e3/