Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Stones of Five Colors and the Em…

By what means did the wizard Kokai produce the flood which separated the two Generals from the army?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wizard Kokai, flood · What happens: mean, produce, separate · To what, where: flood, two Generals

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 produce	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 produce	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Kokai	det
6	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Kokai	amod
7	Kokai	Kokai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 produce	nsubj
8	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flood	det
10	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 produce	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 separated	nsubj
12	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flood	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Generals	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Generals	nummod
15	Generals	General	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 separated	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 army	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 army	det
18	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 separated	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 produce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	produce	past · do-support	the wizard Kokai	the flood		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Result
3	separate	past	the flood	the two Generals	from the army	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent general=Patient from army=Co-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

With a wand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 wand	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wand	det
3	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By stretching forth his wand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 stretching	mark
2	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 stretching	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wand	nmod:poss
5	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund		his wand				forth property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wand=Patient

Option 3

By magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 magic	case
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By calling up the river tides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 calling	mark
2	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 calling	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tides	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tides	compound
6	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	gerund		the river tides					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tide=Recipient

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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