Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

In what season did the old man's garden first burst into bloom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: season · What happens: do, burst · To what, where: garden, bloom

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 season	det
3	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burst	advcl
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	4 did	obj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 burst	advmod
11	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 bloom	case
13	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burst	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 burst	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what season	the old man's garden					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Eventuality
2	burst	past				bloom		first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Mid summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mid	mid	X	_	root	root
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mid	goeswith

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

Option 3

Dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Late autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 autumn	amod
2	autumn	autumn	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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