Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

Which of the following accurately describes the stature of the Empress Jokwa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stature	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 stature	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stature	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stature	csubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stature	det
8	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jokwa	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Jokwa	det
11	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Jokwa	compound
12	Jokwa	Jokwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stature	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stature	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present						accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

Ten feet tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tall	obl:unmarked
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-five feet in height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 height	case
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	nmod

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

Option 3

Twenty-five feet in height from crown to ankle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 height	case
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 crown	case
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 height	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ankle	case
10	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crown	nmod

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

Option 4

Twenty-three feet in height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 three	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 height	case
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feet	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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