Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

Which object did the dying mother bequeath to her daughter as a memorial of herself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, die · To what, where: dying mother bequeath

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1361 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother gives her daughter a mirror, and a stepmother accuses the girl» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bequeath	det
5	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bequeath	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bequeath	compound
7	bequeath	bequeath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 memorial	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 memorial	det
13	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 memorial	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the dying mother bequeath				to object's daughter; as a memorial of object	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bequeath=Eventuality
2	die	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

a mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a silver brooch kept in a small chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brooch	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brooch	amod
3	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brooch	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chest	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chest	amod
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		a silver brooch not said here		a small chest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chest=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a mirror kept in a square wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 mirror	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 box	det
6	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 box	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 box	amod
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		a mirror not said here		a square wooden box			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in box=Location

Option 4

a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	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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