Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5…

In what manner does Uraschimataro respond when the man in the street addresses him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Uraschimataro, man · What happens: respond, address · To what, where: manner, Uraschimataro

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1616 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, part 5: three hundred years have passed» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 respond	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 respond	aux
5	Uraschimataro	Uraschimataro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 respond	nsubj
6	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 addresses	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 addresses	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	addresses	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 respond	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 addresses	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 respond	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	present · do-support	Uraschimataro			what manner			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	address	present	the man in the street		Uraschimataro				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination

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

He stares blankly and says nothing for long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stares	nsubj
2	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blankly	blankly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stares	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stares	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 says	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 long	case
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present	He					blankly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	He not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2

He bows and says nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bows	nsubj
2	bows	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 says	cc
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bows	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 says	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	present	He						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	He not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3

He tries to explain his whole story to the man, but the words will not come out right

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tries	nsubj
2	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 explain	mark
4	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tries	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explain	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explain	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tries	parataxis
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	right	right	ADV	_	17 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	present	He				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his whole story	the man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to man=Recipient
3	not come out	future	the words			out, right property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He perceives that he has lost his senses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perceives	nsubj
2	perceives	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 lost	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 perceives	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 senses	nmod:poss
8	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	present	He						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lose	present · perfect	he	his senses					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality

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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