Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

What demand did the elder brother make before he would forgive the younger?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: demand, elder brother, brother · What happens: do, make, forgive · To what, where: younger

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 demand	det
2	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 forgive	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forgive	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 forgive	aux
11	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 younger	det
13	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 forgive	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what demand		tree rules
2	make	present	the elder brother		tree rules
3	forgive	would	brother	the younger	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=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

He demanded the return of his bow

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 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 return	det
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demanded	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bow	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bow	nmod:poss
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	He	the return of his bow					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition
2	return		his bow						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

He insisted on getting his bow back

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 insisted	nsubj
2	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 getting	mark
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 insisted	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bow	nmod:poss
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	past	He						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	get back	gerund	He not said here	his bow					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bow=Stimulus

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

He demanded the return of his hook

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 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 return	det
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demanded	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hook	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hook	nmod:poss
7	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	He	the return of his hook					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme return=Precondition
2	return		his hook						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

He wanted the hook

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hook	det
4	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

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