Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…
With reference to the text, to what part of the face was the lump from the demon chief affixed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: text · What happens: be, affix · To what, where: lump, demon chief
This is exam question 2 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 text | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 text | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 text | det |
| 5 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lump | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 part | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 text | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lump | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lump | det |
| 15 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 18 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chief | compound |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lump | nmod |
| 20 | affixed | affix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chief | acl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 lump | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the text | the lump | the demon chief | tree rules | |||
| 2 | affix | participle | the demon chief not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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 left cheek of the old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cheek | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheek | amod |
| 3 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheek | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The nose of the old man here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nose | det |
| 2 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nose | nmod |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 nose | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The right cheek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cheek | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheek | amod |
| 3 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The right cheek of the old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cheek | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheek | amod |
| 3 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheek | 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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