Exam question 3 · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Which quality of character is ascribed to Jimmu upon his return of the sum to the seller?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: ascribe, return · To what, where: quality, Jimmu

This is exam question 3 of lesson 724 «Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a tanuki and makes its owner rich» 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 character	case
4	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quality	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ascribed	aux:pass
6	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Jimmu	case
8	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ascribed	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 return	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 return	nmod:poss
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ascribed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sum	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sum	det
14	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 seller	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seller	det
17	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sum	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ascribed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascribe	present · passive		which quality of character	Jimmu			upon Jimmu's return of the sum to the seller	tree rules
2	return		the sum to the seller						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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

generosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

great honesty and a sense of fairness towards others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honesty	amod
2	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sense	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sense	det
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honesty	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fairness	case
7	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sense	nmod
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 honesty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			fairness					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a deep and steady sense of duty to his family and friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sense	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sense	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 steady	cc
4	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 deep	conj
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 duty	case
7	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sense	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sense	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 friends	cc
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 family	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			duty				to his family and friends	nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient to=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

integrity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	integrity	integrity	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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