Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…

Which statement correctly describes the location of the haunted plain Adachigahara?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: statement · What happens: describe, haunt · To what, where: location

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1363 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1: a lost priest finds a lonely hut and a forbidden room» 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 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 location	det
6	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
9	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plain	amod
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 location	nmod
11	Adachigahara	Adachigahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 plain	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which statement	the location of the haunted plain				correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	haunt	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 vast windswept plain located in the far northern province of Mutsu in Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plain	det
2	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plain	amod
3	windswept	windswept	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plain	amod
4	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plain	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 province	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 province	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 province	amod
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 province	amod
10	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 located	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Mutsu	case
12	Mutsu	Mutsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 province	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Japan	case
14	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mutsu	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	locate	participle		a vast windswept plain not said here		the far northern province of Mutsu in Japan			tree rules

Option 2

A wide moor in the province of Ise, Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moor	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moor	amod
3	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 province	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 province	det
6	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moor	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ise	case
8	Ise	Ise	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 province	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Japan	punct
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ise	appos

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A large plain in the province of Mutsu, Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plain	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plain	amod
3	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 province	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 province	det
6	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plain	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Mutsu	case
8	Mutsu	Mutsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 province	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Japan	punct
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mutsu	appos

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

Option 4

A large plain in the province of Shinano, Japan, where travellers often lose their way after dark

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plain	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plain	amod
3	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 province	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 province	det
6	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plain	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Shinano	case
8	Shinano	Shinano	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 province	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Japan	punct
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 plain	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lose	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 lose	advmod
13	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lose	nsubj
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 lose	advmod
15	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plain	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lose	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 dark	case
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	travellers	travellers's way			after dark	often property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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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