Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet…

Which reason did the bridegroom give for the bride wearing the helmet during the ceremony?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, bridegroom, bride · What happens: do, give, wear · To what, where: helmet

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1798 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Bride and the Helmet: the helmet bursts open and the wedding ends happily» 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridegroom	det
5	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bride	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
10	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bride	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 helmet	det
12	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wearing	obj
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 ceremony	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ceremony	det
15	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wearing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which reason				tree rules
2	give	present	the bridegroom			for the bride	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for bride=Asset
3	wear	gerund	the bride not said here	the helmet	during the ceremony		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=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 · ← Mova's choice

Because the rules of their village said that a bride must always wear one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rules	det
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 village	nmod:poss
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rules	nmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wear	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bride	det
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wear	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wear	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 wear	advmod
13	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the rules of rules's village			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wear	must	a bride	one	always property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source
3	rule		rules's village			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

She could not wed without it

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	4 wed	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wed	advmod
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wed	could	She					without it	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

She could not be married at all without it on, the bridegroom explained firmly

The tree, 14 words

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	5 married	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 married	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 married	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 married	aux:pass
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 married	obl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	5 married	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explained	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bridegroom	det
13	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 explained	nsubj
14	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
15	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	14 explained	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry on	could · passive		She		all			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	explain speech: assert	past	the bridegroom					firmly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She could not be married without it

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	5 married	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 married	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 married	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 married	aux:pass
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 married	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	could · passive		She				without it	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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