Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter, part 27: the lost…

Identify the musical instrument performed by the Princesses during the feast, and the nation of its origin.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, perform · To what, where: musical instrument

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 instrument	det
3	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 instrument	amod
4	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 instrument	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Princesses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princesses	det
8	Princesses	Princess	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 performed	obl:agent
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 feast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 performed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nation	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nation	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nation	det
15	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 origin	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 origin	nmod:poss
18	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nation	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the musical instrument				the nation of nation's origin obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
2	perform	participle		the musical instrument not said here			during the feast		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

the KOTO, a Japanese harp of Japanese origin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 KOTO	det
2	KOTO	KOTO	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 harp	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 harp	det
5	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 harp	amod
6	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 KOTO	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 origin	case
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 origin	amod
9	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harp	nmod

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

Option 2

the flute, of Chinese origin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 origin	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 origin	case
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flute	conj

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

Option 3

the drum, of Chinese origin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drum	det
2	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 origin	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 origin	case
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drum	conj

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

Option 4

the biwa, a Japanese lute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 biwa	det
2	biwa	biwa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lute	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lute	det
5	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lute	amod
6	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 biwa	conj

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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