Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

What was the final disposition of the monkey, as enacted by the young crab?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, enact · To what, where: final disposition

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 disposition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disposition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 disposition	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disposition	amod
5	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 monkey	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disposition	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 enacted	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 enacted	mark
11	enacted	enact	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 disposition	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 crab	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crab	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crab	amod
15	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enacted	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 disposition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final disposition				of the monkey	tree rules
2	enact	participle						by the young crab	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

decapitation with the pitcher claws and a stone mortar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 claws	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 claws	det
4	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claws	compound
5	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 decapitation	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mortar	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mortar	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mortar	compound
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claws	conj

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

Option 2

a stabbing with the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stabbing	det
2	stabbing	stab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 knife	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	gerund						with the knife	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument

Option 3

strangulation with the sharp claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strangulation	strangulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 claws	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 claws	det
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 claws	amod
5	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 strangulation	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

decapitation with the pitcher claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	decapitation	decapitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 claws	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 claws	det
4	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claws	compound
5	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 decapitation	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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