Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Dog Shiro, part 29: the greedy n…

What was the final consequence of the neighbour's conduct with the mortar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neighbour · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: final consequence

This is exam question 4 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 conduct	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neighbour	det
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 neighbour	case
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mortar	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mortar	det
13	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final consequence				of the neighbour's conduct with the mortar	tree rules
2	conduct		the neighbour					with the mortar	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

He destroyed it and burned it in the fire pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 burned	cc
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 destroyed	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burned	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 pit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pit	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pit	compound
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	He	it					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	burn	past	He not said here	it		the fire pit			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

He hid it under his floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 floor	nmod:poss
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He	it		his floor			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under floor=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He destroyed it and burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 burned	cc
5	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 destroyed	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	He	it					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	burn	past	He not said here	it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He destroyed the mortar and burned all of its broken pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mortar	det
4	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 destroyed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 burned	cc
6	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 destroyed	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 burned	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pieces	nmod:poss
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	destroy	past	He	the mortar	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Patient
2	burn	past	He not said here	all	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent all=Theme
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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