Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Tanuki: the tanuki s…

On what grounds does the tanuki's son challenge his father to a contest of disguise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grounds · What happens: challenge, contest · To what, where: father, disguise

This is exam question 2 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 challenge	obl
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 challenge	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 challenge	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tanuki	det
6	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 tanuki	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 challenge	nsubj
9	challenge	challenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 challenge	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 contest	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 contest	det
14	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 challenge	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 disguise	case
16	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 contest	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 challenge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	present · do-support	grounds	son's father				to a contest of disguise	tree rules
2	contest			disguise					nom contest «event transitive»: 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

Because he claims he can outwit his father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 claims	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 claims	nsubj
3	claims	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 outwit	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 outwit	aux
6	outwit	outwit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 claims	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outwit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	outwit	can	he	his father					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=Theme

Option 2

Because he wants to prove he is the stronger one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wants	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prove	mark
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prove	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	prove not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	he	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is a	present		the stronger one	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

On the grounds that he too is a skilled wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 grounds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grounds	det
3	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wizard	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wizard	nsubj
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 he	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wizard	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wizard	det
9	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wizard	amod
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grounds	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the grounds	a skilled wizard					tree rules

Option 4

Because he thinks he is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 thinks	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					good property	tree rules

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