Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

What was the name signifying the colour of the dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name · What happens: be, signify · To what, where: colour

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1369 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy neighbour borrows the magic mortar and breaks it» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	signifying	signify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 name	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signifying	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the name						tree rules
2	signify	gerund	the name not said here	the colour of the dog					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=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

golden-brown with a white chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brown	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 golden	punct
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 chest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chest	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chest	amod
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brown	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

pure snow-white like the winter fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snow	amod
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fields	compound
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 white	obl

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

Option 4

red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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