Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part…
With reference to the passage, state the locality in which the Monkey Island was situated relative to the Palace.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, situate · To what, where: locality, Monkey Island
This is exam question 3 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 state | 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 | state | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 locality | det |
| 9 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 state | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 situated | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Island | det |
| 13 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Island | compound |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 situated | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 situated | aux:pass |
| 16 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 locality | acl:relcl |
| 17 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 situated | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Palace | det |
| 20 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 relative | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the locality | with reference to the passage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent locality=Topic | |||
| 2 | situate | past · passive | the Monkey Island | the locality | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme relative=Destination |
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 · ✓ the right answer
some distance to the south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 distance | det |
| 2 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 south | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 south | det |
| 5 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 distance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
some distance south of the Dragon Palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 distance | det |
| 2 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | south | south | ADV | _ | 2 distance | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Palace | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Palace | compound |
| 7 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 distance | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
far beyond the western reef
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 reef | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reef | det |
| 4 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reef | amod |
| 5 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 far | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a long way off past the rocks to the south-west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | past | past | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rocks | det |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 off | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 west | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 west | det |
| 10 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 west | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 south | punct |
| 12 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rocks | 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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