Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara, part 1:…

What is the principal reason the priest enters the forbidden room?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: be, enter, forbid · To what, where: principal reason, forbidden room

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enters	nsubj
8	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enters	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal reason	tree rules
2	enter	present	the priest	the forbidden room	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	forbid	participle			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 wanted to rob the old woman's house

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rob	mark
4	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 woman	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rob	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	rob not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the old woman's house					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Source

Option 2

He wanted gold

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He thought the house was empty and safe

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 empty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safe	cc
8	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 empty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the house	empty property	tree rules
3	be		the house not said here		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Curiosity overcame his promise to the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overcame	nsubj
2	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overcame	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overcame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overcome	past	Curiosity	Curiosity's promise				to the old woman	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot promise=Theme
2	promise		Curiosity						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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