Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

With reference to the passage, state the particular medicine which the attending physician prescribed for the Dragon Queen.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: particular medicine · What happens: attend, physician, prescribe · To what, where: attending physician

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 medicine	det
9	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 medicine	amod
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	appos
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 physician	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 physician	det
13	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 physician	amod
14	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 medicine	conj
15	prescribed	prescribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 physician	acl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 Queen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Queen	det
18	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Queen	compound
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 prescribed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attend	gerund				vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	physician		the particular medicine and the attending physician			tree rules
3	prescribe	participle		the attending physician not said here	for the Dragon Queen	tree rules

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 powder of coral from the palace garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 powder	det
2	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coral	case
4	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 powder	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	compound
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 powder	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the liver of a live monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liver	det
2	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
5	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monkey	amod
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liver	nmod

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

Option 3

the liver of a dead monkey brought from the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liver	det
2	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monkey	amod
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liver	nmod
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 liver	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	participle		the liver of a dead monkey not said here		the forest			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from forest=Initial_Location

Option 4

the heart of a sea turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heart	det
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 turtle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turtle	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turtle	compound
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heart	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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