Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…
At what location did the old man advise the Happy Hunter to seek assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man · What happens: advise, seek · To what, where: Happy Hunter, assistance
This is exam question 4 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 advise | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advise | nsubj |
| 8 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hunter | det |
| 10 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Hunter | amod |
| 11 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 advise | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 advise | advcl |
| 14 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 advise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past · do-support | the old man | the Happy Hunter | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hunter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | assistance | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=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
At the realm of the Dragon King under the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 realm | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 realm | det |
| 3 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | compound |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 realm | nmod |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 realm | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
At the realm of Ryn Gu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 realm | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 realm | det |
| 3 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ryn | case |
| 5 | Ryn | Ryn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 realm | nmod |
| 6 | Gu | Gu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ryn | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At the bottom of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bottom | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottom | det |
| 3 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the land of Ryn Gu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ryn | case |
| 5 | Ryn | Ryn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 land | nmod |
| 6 | Gu | Gu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ryn | flat |
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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