Exam question 1 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

Which feigned condition does the tanuki adopt in order to be sold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tanuki · What happens: feign, adopt, sell · To what, where: condition

This is exam question 1 of lesson 713 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki sells his wife, and his son takes revenge» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 feigned	nsubj
2	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feigned	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 adopt	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tanuki	det
6	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 adopt	nsubj
7	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feigned	conj
8	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 sold	mark
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 in	fixed
10	to	to	PART	_	12 sold	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sold	aux:pass
12	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adopt	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 feigned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feign	past		condition	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Patient
2	adopt	present · do-support	the tanuki		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sell	to-infinitive · passive	the tanuki not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

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

Acting as though he is a harmless village dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 dog	csubj
2	as	as	ADV	_	1 Acting	advmod
3	though	though	ADP	_	4 he	case
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Acting	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dog	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	compound
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund						though he	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Acting	a harmless village dog					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Feigning death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feigning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feign	gerund		death					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient

Option 3

Faking a limp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 limp	det
3	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund		a limp					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limp=Patient

Option 4

Pretending to be a sleeping dead tree stump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	5 sleeping	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sleeping	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sleeping	det
5	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pretending	xcomp
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stump	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stump	compound
8	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a sleeping and dead tree stump					tree rules

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