Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost…

Describe the duration of the Happy Hunter's sojourn in the Sea Palace, and the sentiment which increasingly afflicted him.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sentiment, Happy Hunter · What happens: describe, afflict, sojourn · To what, where: duration, him, Sea Palace

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1367 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost hook is found in the TAI's throat and returned, and the Hunter stays on in the Sea Palace» 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 sojourn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hunter	det
6	Happy	Happy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hunter	flat
7	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sojourn	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Hunter	case
9	sojourn	sojourn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duration	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Palace	det
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Palace	compound
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sojourn	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sentiment	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sentiment	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sentiment	det
17	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 afflicted	nsubj
19	increasingly	increasingly	ADV	_	20 afflicted	advmod
20	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sentiment	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 afflicted	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the duration of the Happy Hunter's sojourn in the Sea Palace		the sentiment obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme
2	afflict	past	the sentiment	him = he		increasingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	sojourn		the Happy Hunter		the Sea Palace		nom sojourn «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

two years, accompanied by growing anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accompanied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 growing	mark
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 accompanied	advcl
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle	two years						vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund	two years not said here	anger					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anger=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

three years, accompanied by growing homesickness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accompanied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 homesickness	case
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 homesickness	amod
7	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accompanied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle	three years					by growing homesickness	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by homesickness=Destination
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

about three years, accompanied by growing homesickness and a longing for his brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	about	about	ADV	_	2 three	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accompanied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
5	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 growing	mark
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 accompanied	advcl
8	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 longing	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 longing	det
11	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 homesickness	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 brother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle	three years						vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund	three years not said here	homesickness and a longing				for his brother	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent homesickness=Product for brother=Beneficiary

Option 4

nearly two decades, accompanied by growing boredom and an urge to wander the sea

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 decades	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 decades	nummod
3	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 accompanied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 accompanied	punct
5	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 growing	mark
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 accompanied	advcl
8	boredom	boredom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 urge	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 urge	det
11	urge	urge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boredom	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wander	mark
13	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 growing	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wander	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accompany	participle	two decades		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund	two decades not said here	boredom and a urge	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boredom=Theme
3	wander	to-infinitive	two decades not said here	the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory

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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