Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…

By which means did Momotaro gain admittance to the interior of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Momotaro · What happens: mean, gain · To what, where: admittance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1382 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro storms the Demon King's castle, frees the captives and takes the devil chief home» 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 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gain	aux
5	Momotaro	Momotaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gain	nsubj
6	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
7	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gain	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 interior	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 interior	det
10	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gain	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 interior	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gain	past · do-support	Momotaro	admittance				to the interior of the castle result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient admittance=Extent to interior=Result

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

through a small back door in the lowest wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	5 door	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
8	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 wall	amod
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod

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

Option 2

through a small back door in the lowest wall, after crossing the moat on a fallen log

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	5 door	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	compound
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
8	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 wall	amod
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 door	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crossing	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 crossing	mark
12	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 door	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moat	det
14	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crossing	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 log	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 log	det
17	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 log	amod
18	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crossing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	a small back door in the lowest wall not said here	the moat		a fallen log			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moat=Patient
2	fall	participle							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

through a small gate in the highest wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gate	amod
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 wall	amod
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	nmod

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

Option 4

via a hidden stair in the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	via	via	ADP	_	4 stair	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stair	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stair	amod
4	stair	stair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tower	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tower	det
7	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stair	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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