Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, par…

Identify the person who, in the absence of a male heir, was adopted by Prince Toyonari to succeed to his household.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Prince · What happens: identify, adopt, succeed, absent · To what, where: person, absence, male heir

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1354 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Man Who Did Not Wish to Die, part 1: Sentaro hears of the Elixir of Life and flies off on a paper crane» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 person	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 absence	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 absence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 absence	det
8	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 heir	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heir	det
11	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heir	amod
12	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 absence	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 adopted	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 adopted	aux:pass
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 Prince	case
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 adopted	obl
18	Toyonari	Toyonari	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Prince	flat
19	to	to	PART	_	20 succeed	mark
20	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 adopted	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 household	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 household	nmod:poss
23	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 succeed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person	the absence of a male heir		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	adopt	past · passive	Prince				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	succeed	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			to Prince's household	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	absent			a male heir			nom absence «state 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

A nephew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nephew	det
2	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A monk's ward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ward	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 monk	case
4	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A younger son of one of the Court nobles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 nobles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nobles	det
8	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nobles	compound
9	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A boy taken from a poor farming family nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 family	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 family	amod
7	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 family	compound
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
9	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	8 family	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a boy not said here		a poor farming family			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from family=Initial_Location

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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