Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden…

Which creature acted as umpire during the contest between the monkey and the hare?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: act · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1350 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Adventures of Kintaro the Golden Boy, part 1: a widow hides her baby in the mountains, and the animals hold a wrestling match» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 creature	acl
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 umpire	case
5	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acted	obl
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 contest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 contest	det
8	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acted	obl
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contest	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hare	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hare	det
14	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 monkey	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 creature	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	participle		which creature not said here			during the contest between the monkey and the hare	as umpire	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as umpire=Attribute

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 deer, who raised a leaf as a signal and then declared the monkey the winner of the match

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 raised	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 raised	nsubj
5	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 signal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 signal	det
10	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 declared	advmod
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raised	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 monkey	det
15	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declared	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 winner	det
17	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 declared	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 match	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 match	det
20	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 winner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the deer	a leaf				as a signal	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the deer not said here	the monkey			then		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme winner=Attribute

Option 2

The bear, who had built the wrestling platform and raised a flag for the start of each round of the match

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 built	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 built	aux
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 bear	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 platform	det
8	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 platform	compound
9	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 built	cc
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flag	det
13	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 start	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 start	det
16	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 round	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 round	det
19	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 start	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 match	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 match	det
22	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 round	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect	the bear	the wrestling platform		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platform=Product
2	raise	past	the bear	a flag	for the start of each round of the match	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Theme
3	start			each round of the match		nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The deer, who raised a leaf as a signal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 raised	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 raised	nsubj
5	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 signal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 signal	det
10	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the deer	a leaf				as a signal	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

Option 4

The monkey, who pulled the hare's ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulled	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pulled	nsubj
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hare	det
7	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ear	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hare	case
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the monkey	the hare's ear					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

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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