Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mo…

By what means did Prince Yamato Take overcome the serpent encountered on Mount Ibuki?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Yamato, serpent · What happens: mean, take overcome, encounter · To what, where: Mount

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1379 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mountain: he kills the monster, is poisoned, heals in hot springs, and goes home to Ise» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Take	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Take	aux
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Yamato	nmod:desc
6	Yamato	Yamato	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Take	nsubj
7	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 encountered	advcl
8	overcome	overcome	ADP	_	7 Take	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 encountered	nsubj
11	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Mount	case
13	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 encountered	obl
14	Ibuki	Ibuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mount	flat
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 encountered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	take overcome	past · do-support	Yamato Prince		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	encounter	past	the serpent	Mount	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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

He strangled it with his bare arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strangled	nsubj
2	strangled	strangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 strangled	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 arms	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arms	amod
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strangled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strangle	past	He	it				with his bare arms	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with arm=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He struck it with a wooden club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 club	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 club	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 club	amod
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	He	it				with a wooden club	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 3

He cut it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	past	He	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 4

He stabbed it with a long spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	nsubj
2	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 spear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spear	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spear	amod
7	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past	He	it				with a long spear	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spear=Instrument

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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