Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…
How long did the father remain absent from the household?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: do, remain
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remain | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 household | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 household | det |
| 10 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 absent | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | present | the father | absent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
About a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Most of the entire winter season
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 season | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 season | det |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 season | amod |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | compound |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Several months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 months | amod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About a month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 month | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 3 | month | month | 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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