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

Pursuant to the text, with what words did the priest petition the protector of his faith during his flight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: words · What happens: do · To what, where: text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1364 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Goblin of Adachigahara: the priest flees the haunted house» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	obj
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 text	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 petition	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 petition	compound
12	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 protector	det
14	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 petition	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 faith	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 faith	nmod:poss
17	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protector	nmod
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 flight	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 flight	nmod:poss
20	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	words	the text			during his flight		tree rules

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

He prayed aloud

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 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 prayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	He					aloud property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He repeated the invocation "Namu Amida Butsu"

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 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 invocation	det
4	invocation	invocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 repeated	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Namu	punct
6	Namu	Namu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 invocation	appos
7	Amida	Amida	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Namu	flat
8	Butsu	Butsu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Namu	flat
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Namu	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	He	the invocation					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invocation=Eventuality

Option 3

He sang an old folk song loudly

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 song	compound
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	He	a old folk song				loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

He shouted for help from the gods while running down the long road to escape

The tree, 15 words

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 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 help	case
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouted	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 gods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouted	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 running	mark
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shouted	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	13 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 road	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 road	amod
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 escape	mark
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 running	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He		for help; from the gods	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient
2	run down	gerund	He not said here	the long road		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory
3	escape	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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