Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Urashima Taro: Urashima opens the bo…

According to the narrator, which principle is most strongly emphasised in the concluding moral?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, emphasise, conclude · To what, where: principle, concluding moral

This is exam question 4 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 narrator	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 emphasised	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 emphasised	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 principle	det
7	principle	principle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 emphasised	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 emphasised	aux:pass
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 strongly	advmod
10	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	11 emphasised	advmod
11	emphasised	emphasise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 moral	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moral	det
14	concluding	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 moral	amod
15	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 emphasised	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 emphasised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	emphasise	present · passive	which principle	the concluding moral	accord the narrator; strongly property	tree rules
3	conclude	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Patience when waiting for loved ones.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	nsubj
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 waiting	advmod
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waiting	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	Patience					for loved ones	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	participle							vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Obedience to those wiser than oneself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiser	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 wiser	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 wiser	det
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 oneself	case
6	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wiser	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wiser	punct

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

Option 3

Obedience to those wiser than oneself, even when the heart desires otherwise.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wiser	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 wiser	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 wiser	det
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 oneself	case
6	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wiser	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 desires	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 desires	advmod
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 desires	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heart	det
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desires	nsubj
12	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiser	conj
13	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	12 desires	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wiser	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	present	the heart					otherwise property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Obedience to those wiser than oneself, and a fear of opening forbidden things.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 wiser	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 wiser	det
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Obedience	conj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 oneself	case
6	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wiser	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fear	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fear	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fear	det
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Obedience	conj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 opening	mark
12	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fear	acl
13	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opening	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Obedience	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund	a fear not said here	forbidden things					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
2	forbid	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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