Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: th…

Which of the following did the monkey leave for the crab after consuming the ripest persimmons?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, leave, consume · To what, where: ripest persimmons

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1373 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: the monkey eats the ripe persimmons and kills the crab» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 leave	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 monkey	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 monkey	case
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 monkey	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 crab	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crab	det
11	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 consuming	mark
13	consuming	consume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 leave	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 persimmons	det
15	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 persimmons	amod
16	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 consuming	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive		of the monkey; for the crab	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of monkey=Initial_Location
3	consume	gerund	the ripest persimmons		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persimmon=Asset

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 right answer

the unripe persimmons only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 persimmons	det
2	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persimmons	amod
3	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 persimmons	advmod

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

Option 2

only the unripe persimmons that had fallen from the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	4 persimmons	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 persimmons	det
3	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 persimmons	amod
4	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fallen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 persimmons	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fallen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the unripe persimmons			the tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location

Option 3

the ripe persimmons only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 persimmons	det
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persimmons	amod
3	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 persimmons	advmod

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

Option 4

the unripe persimmons only, after he had finished eating everything else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 persimmons	det
2	unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persimmons	amod
3	persimmons	persimmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eating	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 finished	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 finished	punct
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 finished	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 finished	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	aux
9	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 persimmons	acl:relcl
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 eating	obj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 everything	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	he	the unripe persimmons not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector persimmon=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	the unripe persimmons	everything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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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