Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

Pursuant to the narrative, by whom was the ogre's arm severed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, sever · To what, where: arm

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1383 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake old nurse steals the arm back from its box» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arm	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 arm	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 arm	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogre	det
10	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arm	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 ogre	case
12	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
13	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 arm	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ogre's arm				by the narrative	tree rules
2	sever	participle		the ogre's arm not said here					vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 right answer

Watanabe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watanabe	Watanabe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Raiko

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raiko	Raiko	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yori

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yori	Yori	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Kintoki

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kintoki	Kintoki	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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