Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Slaying of the Tanuki, part 6: t…

Which device did the hare employ to ignite the Tanuki's burden of wood?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: device, Tanuki · What happens: employ, ignite, burden · To what, where: burden, wood

This is exam question 4 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 device	det
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ignite	mark
8	ignite	ignite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tanuki	det
10	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 burden	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Tanuki	case
12	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignite	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wood	case
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burden	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which device		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	ignite	to-infinitive	which device not said here	the Tanuki's burden of wood	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent burden=Patient
3	burden		the Tanuki	wood	nom burden «cognition 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

he rubbed two sticks

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 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sticks	nummod
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	he	two sticks					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he set the wood alight

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 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
5	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	he	the wood				alight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wood=Result

Option 3

a lantern and a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lantern	det
2	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 torch	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lantern	conj

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

Option 4

a match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 match	det
2	match	match	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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