Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

Dude, what's on the back of the mirror?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: back

This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 back	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 back	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mirror	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mirror	det
10	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dude			the back		of the mirror	tree rules

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

Bamboo and reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 reeds	cc
3	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bamboo	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reed	present	Bamboo not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pine trees and storks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 storks	cc
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	conj

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

Option 3

Pine trees, storks, and a rising sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 storks	punct
4	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sun	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sun	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sun	det
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sun	amod
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cherry blossoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blossoms	compound
2	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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