Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

Which implement did the old man employ to excavate the ground?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: implement · What happens: employ, excavate · To what, where: ground

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
7	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 excavate	mark
9	excavate	excavate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 employ	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excavate	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which implement						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	excavate	to-infinitive	which implement not said here	the ground					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Location

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

spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

rake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

shovel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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