Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Momotaro, the last part: Momotaro st…
In what city is the second tale set, and what object is said to be haunted there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, say, haunt · To what, where: second tale set, city, object · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 city | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 city | nsubj |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 set | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 set | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | compound |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 12 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux:pass |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 set | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 haunted | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 haunted | aux:pass |
| 17 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | xcomp |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 haunted | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the second tale set | city | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | object | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | haunt | to-infinitive · passive | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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
Osaka, the Gate of Suzaku
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Osaka | Osaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gate | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gate | det |
| 4 | Gate | Gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Osaka | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Suzaku | case |
| 6 | Suzaku | Suzaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gate | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Kyoto, a palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 palace | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kyoto | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nara, the old temple gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nara | Nara | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gate | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gate | amod |
| 5 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | compound |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nara | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Kyoto, the Gate of Rashomon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyoto | Kyoto | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gate | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gate | det |
| 4 | Gate | Gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kyoto | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rashomon | case |
| 6 | Rashomon | Rashomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gate | 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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