Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the sui…

Which action did the Fourth Knight take upon recovering from his illness?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: take, recover · To what, where: illness

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1358 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight, part 18: the suitors fail, the Emperor comes, the Princess tells her secret» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Knight	det
5	Fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 Knight	amod
6	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 recovering	mark
9	recovering	recover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 take	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 illness	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 illness	nmod:poss
12	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recovering	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	which action						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recover	gerund	which action not said here			Knight's illness			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from illness=Source

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

He sent for the Princess again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 Princess	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	He				again	for the Princess	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He resolved never to approach the Princess again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resolved	nsubj
2	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 resolved	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 approach	mark
5	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 resolved	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 approach	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 approach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not resolve	past	He						tree rules
2	approach	to-infinitive	He not said here	the Princess			again		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme

Option 3

He stayed in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He			bed			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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