Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

What was the principal effect of the mirror upon the daughter's emotional condition?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, condition · To what, where: principal effect

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1361 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother gives her daughter a mirror, and a stepmother accuses the girl» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 effect	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 effect	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 effect	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 effect	amod
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mirror	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mirror	det
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 effect	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 condition	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 condition	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 daughter	case
13	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 condition	amod
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mirror	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 effect	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal effect				of the mirror upon the daughter's emotional condition	tree rules
2	condition		the daughter						nom condition «state transitive»: poss=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

it lightened the weight of her sorrow and gave her hope for her future life

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lightened	nsubj
2	lightened	lighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weight	det
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lightened	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sorrow	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weight	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lightened	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hope	nmod:poss
11	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 life	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
14	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lighten	past	it	the weight of her sorrow		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
2	give	past		her hope	for her future life	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent hope=Theme for life=Asset
3	sorrow		her = she			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
4	hope		her = she			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

it lightened the weight of her sorrow, so she slept better through every long night

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lightened	nsubj
2	lightened	lighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weight	det
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lightened	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sorrow	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weight	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slept	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	nsubj
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lightened	conj
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 slept	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 night	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lighten	past	it	the weight of her sorrow			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
2	sleep	past	she		night	well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sorrow		her = she				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it lightened the weight of her sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lightened	nsubj
2	lightened	lighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weight	det
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lightened	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sorrow	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lighten	past	it	the weight of her sorrow					vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
2	sorrow		her = she						nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it made her grief a little smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	obl:unmarked
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	grief	her = she			a little obl:unmarked; small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary grief=Product

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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