--- title: With reference to the passage, identify the creature which the chief… — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t… · tree and pragmatics description: With reference to the passage, identify the creature which the chief steward selected to undertake the mission. Exam question 2 of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1371-pg4018-part31/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1371-pg4018-part31/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part… With reference to the passage, identify the creature which the chief steward selected to undertake the mission. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, creature · **What happens:** identify, steward, select, undertake · **To what, where:** creature, chief steward, mission This is exam question 2 of lesson 1371 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Monkey and the Jelly-Fish, part 31: the jelly fish tricks a monkey into going to the sea» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1371-pg4018-part31/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:e2:1 # text = With reference to the passage, identify the creature which the chief steward selected to undertake the mission. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 reference reference NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 steward steward NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 selected select VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 undertake undertake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mission mission NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the creature | | | | with reference to the passage | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 2 | **steward** | | the creature | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **select** | participle | | the chief steward *not said here* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 4 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | | the mission | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Eventuality | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} the sea turtle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:e2:o1:1 # text = the sea turtle 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a crab ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:e2:o2:1 # text = a crab 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the kurage ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:e2:o3:1 # text = the kurage 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kurage kurage NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the eel ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1371-pg4018-part31:e2:o4:1 # text = the eel 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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