Exam question 2 · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

To what rank was Kintaro promoted after he had grown up to be a man in the service of his master?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kintaro · What happens: be, grow up, service · To what, where: man, service, master

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 promoted	obj
3	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promoted	cop
5	Kintaro	Kintaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promoted	nsubj
6	promoted	promote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 grown	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grown	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grown	aux
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 promoted	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grown	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	15 man	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 man	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grown	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 service	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 service	det
18	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 master	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 service	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 promoted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kintaro			promote property	tree rules
2	grow up	past · perfect	Kintaro				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	Kintaro not said here	a man	the service of Kintaro's master		tree rules
4	service			Kintaro's master			nom service «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Head of the Five Braves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Braves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Braves	det
4	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Braves	nummod
5	Braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Head	nmod

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

Option 2

Captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Chief of the Four Braves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 Braves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Braves	det
4	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Braves	nummod
5	Braves	brave	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chief	nmod

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

Option 4

Leader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leader	leader	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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