Exam question 3 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

What was the outcome of the Tanuki's deception of the peasant's wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tanuki · What happens: be, deceive · To what, where: outcome, wife

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 deception	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tanuki	det
7	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deception	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tanuki	case
9	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 wife	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peasant	det
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 peasant	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deception	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the Tanuki's deception of the peasant's wife	tree rules
2	deceive		the Tanuki	the peasant's wife					nom deception «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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

she was pounded in the mortar until she could not stand up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pounded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pounded	aux:pass
3	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mortar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mortar	det
6	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pounded	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 stand	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stand	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stand	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stand	advmod
11	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pounded	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stand	compound:prt
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 stand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pound	past · passive		she		the mortar			tree rules
2	not stand up	could	she				again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was thrown in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		she		the river			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in river=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was pounded in the mortar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pounded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pounded	aux:pass
3	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mortar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mortar	det
6	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pound	past · passive		she		the mortar			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in mortar=Trajectory

Option 4

she was carried off by a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fox	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive	a fox	she					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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