Exam question 3 · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…
In what ancient city did the wise State minister Prince Toyonari Fujiwara reside with his wife?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ancient city, Toyonari · What happens: do, reside · To what, where: wise State minister
This is exam question 3 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minister | amod |
| 8 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 minister | compound |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Toyonari | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Toyonari | Toyonari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reside | nsubj |
| 12 | Fujiwara | Fujiwara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Toyonari | flat |
| 13 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reside | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | ancient city | the wise State minister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reside | present | Toyonari Prince | with Toyonari's wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nara | Nara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Osaka
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Osaka | Osaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Kyoto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the ancient city of Kyoto in the old capital
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kyoto | case |
| 5 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 capital | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 capital | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 capital | amod |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
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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