Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

By what means did the stepmother attempt to procure the girl's removal from the household?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: mean, do, procure, remove · To what, where: stepmother attempt, removal, household · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 attempt	det
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attempt	compound
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 procure	mark
9	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 attempt	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 removal	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 girl	case
13	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procure	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 household	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 household	det
16	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procure	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the stepmother attempt		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Eventuality
3	procure	to-infinitive		the girl's removal	the household	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent removal=Theme from household=Source
4	remove		the girl			nom removal «act transitive»: poss=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

by alleging that the girl was cursing her, and by threatening to leave the household

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 alleging	mark
2	alleging	allege	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cursing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cursing	aux
7	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 alleging	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cursing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threatening	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threatening	cc
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 threatening	mark
12	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 alleging	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 threatening	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 household	det
16	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	allege speech: other	gerund			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	curse	past · progressive	the girl	her = she	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	threaten	gerund			tree rules
4	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive		the household	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by alleging that the girl was cursing her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 alleging	mark
2	alleging	allege	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cursing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cursing	aux
7	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 alleging	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cursing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allege speech: other	gerund							vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	curse	past · progressive	the girl	her = she					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

by asking the father to send her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 asking	mark
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asking	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asking	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 send	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 send	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the father				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send off not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

by alleging that the girl was cursing her and that the mirror was evil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 alleging	mark
2	alleging	allege	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cursing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cursing	aux
7	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 alleging	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cursing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 evil	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 evil	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mirror	det
12	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 evil	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 evil	cop
14	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 alleging	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allege speech: other	gerund				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	curse	past · progressive	the girl	her = she		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	is	past	the mirror		evil property	tree rules

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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