Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestl…

Upon what occasion did the youth demonstrate his capacity by uprooting a tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: occasion, youth · What happens: do, demonstrate, uproot · To what, where: capacity, tree

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1351 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Kintaro, part 11: a bridge, a wrestler, and a general's offer» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 demonstrate	obl
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 demonstrate	nsubj
7	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 capacity	nmod:poss
9	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demonstrate	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 uprooting	mark
11	uprooting	uproot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 demonstrate	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 uprooting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 demonstrate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	occasion		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	demonstrate	present	the youth	occasion's capacity	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capacity=Topic
3	uproot	gerund	the youth not said here	a tree	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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 right answer

At the river crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 crossing	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crossing	det
3	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	compound
4	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

On the mountain road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 road	compound
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

At dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 river	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 river	det
3	river	river	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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