Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

Pursuant to the narrative, which individual first concealed himself within the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: conceal · To what, where: himself

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1385 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Empress Jokwa, part 45: Kokai's flood and a miraculous road» 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	_	9 concealed	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	9 concealed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 individual	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 individual	det
7	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 concealed	advmod
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 concealed	obj
11	within	within	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concealed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 concealed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past		himself = he				to the narrative and which individual; within the tree; first, pursuant property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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 first old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Oni

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Oni	det
2	Oni	Oni	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The white-haired elder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 elder	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 haired	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 white	punct
4	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elder	amod
5	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The second old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	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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