Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Yamato Take, the serpent on Ibuki Mo…

Which property of the river water is specifically described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe · To what, where: property, passage

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 property	det
2	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 property	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 described	aux:pass
8	specifically	specifically	ADV	_	9 described	advmod
9	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 passage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 passage	det
12	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which property of the river water		the passage		specifically property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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

It was dark and smelled of fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smelled	cc
5	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dark	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					dark property	tree rules
2	smell	participle						of fish	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of fish=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was as clear as crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 crystal	case
6	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						as crystal; clear property	tree rules

Option 3

It was muddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 muddy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 muddy	cop
3	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					muddy property	tree rules

Option 4

It was cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					cold property	tree rules

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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