Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Crab: the young c…

Which tale commences directly after the death of the monkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale, monkey · What happens: commence, die

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commences	nsubj
3	commences	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 commences	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commences	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 monkey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkey	det
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 death	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 commences	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	present	which tale				after the death of the monkey	directly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	die		the monkey						nom death «event intransitive»: of=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

The Hare and the Turtle Race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Race	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Race	det
5	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Race	compound
6	Race	Race	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hare	conj

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

Option 2

The Clever Hare Who Escaped the Crocodiles at the River

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
2	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Escaped	nsubj
4	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Escaped	nsubj
5	Escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crocodiles	det
7	Crocodiles	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Escaped	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 River	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 River	det
10	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	the Clever Hare	the Crocodiles		the River			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crocodile=Initial_Location

Option 3

The Wolf King Who Tricked the Sea Crocodiles Long Ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	compound
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tricked	nsubj
4	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 Tricked	nsubj
5	Tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Crocodiles	det
7	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Crocodiles	compound
8	Crocodiles	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Tricked	obj
9	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 Ago	advmod
10	Ago	ago	ADV	_	5 Tricked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the Wolf King	the Sea Crocodiles				ago property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The White Hare and the Crocodiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
2	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Crocodiles	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Crocodiles	det
6	Crocodiles	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Hare	conj

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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