Exam question 1 · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…
Which of the following was the name given to the band of warriors commanded by Lord Raiko?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, give, command · To what, where: name, band, warriors · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1352 «The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 12: Kintaro becomes a hero, and a stepmother plots poison» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 name | case |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 name | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 band | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 band | det |
| 11 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 warriors | case |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 band | nmod |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 warriors | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Lord | case |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | obl |
| 17 | Raiko | Raiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Lord | flat |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | of the name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | the name not said here | the band of warriors | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to band=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | command | participle | warriors not said here | by Lord | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by lord=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 · ← Mova's choice
The Braves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Braves | det |
| 2 | Braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Four Braves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Braves | det |
| 2 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Braves | nummod |
| 3 | Braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four Guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Guards | nummod |
| 2 | Guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Iron Guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Guard | det |
| 2 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Guard | compound |
| 3 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | 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/1352-pg4018-part12/e1/