Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…
To what did the proverb compare the mirror?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proverb · What happens: compare · To what, where: mirror
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 compare | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 compare | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 proverb | det |
| 5 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | nsubj |
| 6 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mirror | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 compare | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | past · do-support | the proverb | the mirror | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=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
The heart of a man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The reflection of the moon on still water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reflection | det |
| 2 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflection | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 water | advmod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reflection | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A bird in spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spring | case |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The soul of a woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soul | det |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soul | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/e2/