Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…

With reference to the passage, identify the creature which the chief steward selected to undertake the mission.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: identify, steward, select, undertake · To what, where: creature, chief steward, mission

This is exam question 2 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	7 identify	obl
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	_	2 reference	punct
7	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creature	det
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 identify	obj
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 steward	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 steward	det
12	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steward	amod
13	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 creature	appos
14	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 steward	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 undertake	mark
16	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 selected	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mission	det
18	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertake	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the creature	with reference to the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	steward		the creature			tree rules
3	select	participle		the chief steward not said here		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	undertake	to-infinitive		the mission		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Eventuality

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 sea turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 turtle	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtle	compound
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crab	det
2	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the kurage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kurage	det
2	kurage	kurage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the eel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eel	det
2	eel	eel	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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