Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

By what means did the basket traverse the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: basket · What happens: mean, traverse · To what, where: sea

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 traverse	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traverse	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traverse	nsubj
7	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traverse	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 traverse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	traverse	past · do-support	the basket	the sea					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme

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

With magic words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

By oars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 oars	case
2	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By its own accord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 accord	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 accord	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 accord	amod
4	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By the current

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 current	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 current	det
3	current	current	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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