Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…

With reference to the text, what was the immediate consequence of the opening of the box?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: text · What happens: be · To what, where: immediate consequence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1347 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the box and grows old» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 text	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consequence	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 consequence	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 consequence	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 consequence	det
10	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 consequence	amod
11	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 text	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 opening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 opening	det
14	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 consequence	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opening	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the text	the immediate consequence				of the opening of the box	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

Nothing visible happened at all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 visible	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 happened	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	participle				all			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

The cloud drifted away and he slowly grew young again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drifted	nsubj
3	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 drifted	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drifted	conj
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drifted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift away	past	the cloud					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	cloud				again	slowly, young property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He sank into the sea and was never seen again by anyone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seen	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux:pass
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sank	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 seen	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 seen	obl:agent
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He			the sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not see	past · passive	anyone				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Urashima suddenly aged and fell dead upon the beach.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 aged	nsubj
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 aged	advmod
3	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aged	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 aged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past				the beach		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon beach=Location

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