Exam question 4 · The Japanese Fairy Book, Kintaro and Princess Hase, part 1…

By what means did Princess Terute propose to bring about the death of her step-daughter, Hase-Hime?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess Terute, step daughter · What happens: mean, propose, bring, die

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 propose	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	aux
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Terute	compound
6	Terute	Terute	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 propose	ccomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 death	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
15	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 step	punct
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Hase	punct
19	Hase	Hase	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	appos
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Hime	punct
21	Hime	Hime	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Hase	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	propose	past · do-support	Princess Terute		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring	to-infinitive	Princess Terute not said here	about the death of Terute's step daughter	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	die		Terute's step daughter		nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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

By a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 knife	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By poisoned sweet wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 wine	case
2	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wine	amod
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wine	amod
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By a hidden dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 dagger	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dagger	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dagger	amod
4	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By poison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 poison	case
2	poison	poison	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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