Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

Which substance was released from the box when Urashima opened it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Urashima · What happens: release, open · To what, where: substance, box

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1617 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: the hare burns the Tanuki's back» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 substance	det
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 released	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 released	aux:pass
4	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 box	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 released	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 opened	advmod
9	Urashima	Urashima	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 released	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 opened	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 released	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	past · passive		which substance		the box			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
2	open	past	Urashima	substance					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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

a grey cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a yellow mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mist	det
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mist	amod
3	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

a purple vapour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vapour	det
2	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vapour	amod
3	vapour	vapour	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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