Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Watanabe and the Ogre's Arm: a fake…

By what means did the ogre depart from the residence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do, depart · To what, where: ogre, residence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 depart	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogre	det
6	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 residence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 residence	det
10	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 depart	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 depart	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the ogre		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Eventuality
3	depart	present		the residence	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from residence=Initial_Location

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

By bursting through the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bursting	mark
2	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 roof	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roof	det
5	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bursting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	gerund				the roof			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through roof=Location

Option 2

By storming out the front gate after breaking the lock with his club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 storming	mark
2	storming	storm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 storming	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gate	amod
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 storming	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 breaking	mark
8	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 storming	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lock	det
10	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaking	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 club	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 club	nmod:poss
13	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm out	gerund		the front gate					tree rules
2	break	gerund		the lock				with his club	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lock=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 3

By transforming into smoke and drifting through the cracked shutters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 transforming	mark
2	transforming	transform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 smoke	case
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transforming	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drifting	cc
6	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 transforming	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 shutters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shutters	det
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shutters	amod
10	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	transform	gerund		into smoke result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into smoke=Result
2	drift	gerund	the cracked shutters		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through shutter=Trajectory
3	crack	participle			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

By climbing down the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 climbing	mark
2	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund				the wall			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down wall=Trajectory

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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