Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

What was the species of the tree beneath which the dog was buried?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bury · To what, where: species, dog, tree

This is exam question 2 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	4 species	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 species	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 species	det
4	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 species	nmod
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 buried	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 buried	aux:pass
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tree	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 species	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the species				of the tree	tree rules
2	bury	past · passive		the dog		the tree			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beneath which=Destination

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

the yenoki tree of the old man's garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	yenoki	yenoki	X	_	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 garden	case
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	9 garden	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yenoki

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yenoki	yenoki	X	Foreign=Yes	root	root

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

Option 3

cedar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a large yenoki tree from the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	yenoki	yenoki	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod

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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