Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab, part 33: th…
Which of the following did the young crab discover beside his father's body?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, discover · To what, where: body
This is exam question 3 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 | 9 discover | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crab | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 crab | case |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crab | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crab | amod |
| 8 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discover | obl |
| 9 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discover | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 discover | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | discover | present | crab's father's body | of the young crab | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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 broken shell of a crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shell | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shell | amod |
| 3 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shell | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the unripe persimmons thrown at him
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 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 persimmons | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | participle | the unripe persimmons not said here | at him = he | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination |
Option 3
the ripe persimmons nearby
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 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 3 persimmons | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the sour fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fruit | det |
| 2 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fruit | amod |
| 3 | fruit | fruit | 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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