Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

What is the principal consequence of the neighbor's deception before the Daimio?

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 deception	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 neighbor	det
8	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deception	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 neighbor	case
10	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 Daimio	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Daimio	det
13	Daimio	Daimio	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 deception	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal consequence				of the neighbor's deception before the Daimio	tree rules
2	deceive		the neighbor				before the Daimio		nom deception «communication transitive»: poss=agent before=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

A fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fine	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

His public whipping in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 whipping	nmod:poss
2	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whipping	amod
3	whipping	whipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whipping	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip		His = he			the garden			nom whipping «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His imprisonment as an impostor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 imprisonment	nmod:poss
2	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 impostor	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 impostor	det
5	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imprisonment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imprison		His = he					as a impostor	nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent as=obl

Option 4

His beheading before the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beheading	nmod:poss
2	beheading	beheading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 court	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beheading	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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