Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…
For what occasion did the monkey, by invitation, attend the residence of the young crab?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occasion, you · What happens: do, attend · To what, where: monkey, residence
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1374 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young crab takes revenge on the monkey who killed his father» 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attend | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 invitation | case |
| 9 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attend | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invitation | punct |
| 11 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 residence | det |
| 13 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attend | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 crab | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crab | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crab | amod |
| 17 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 residence | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 attend | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | occasion | the monkey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attend | imperative | you not said here | the residence of the young crab | by invitation | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme residence=Goal |
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
the first anniversary of the crab's decease
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 anniversary | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 anniversary | amod |
| 3 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 decease | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 decease | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 8 | decease | decease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anniversary | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | the crab | nom decease «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
the first anniversary of a crab's wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 anniversary | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 anniversary | amod |
| 3 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wedding | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anniversary | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | a crab | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the funeral rites of the crab's entire ancestral household line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rites | det |
| 2 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rites | compound |
| 3 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 line | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 line | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 8 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 9 | ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 line | amod |
| 10 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 line | compound |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rites | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the first anniversary of the crab's decease and his tomb blessing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 anniversary | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 anniversary | amod |
| 3 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 decease | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crab | det |
| 6 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 decease | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 crab | case |
| 8 | decease | decease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anniversary | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blessing | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blessing | compound |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 anniversary | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decease | the crab | nom decease «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 2 | bless | crab | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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