Test 10 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

What did the girl do every morning with the mirror?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 mirror	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mirror	det
10	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the girl				morning	with the mirror	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

cleaned it up nice and slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cleaned	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 cleaned	compound:prt
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cleaned	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slow	cc
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean up	past		it				nice property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

had a good look at it and talked to her mum's face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 look	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	amod
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 had	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 talked	cc
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 had	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 face	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 face	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mum	case
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a good look		look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
2	talk	past						to her mum's face	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to face=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

had a good look at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 look	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	amod
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a good look		look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

Option 4

took a quick peek at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 peek	det
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peek	amod
4	peek	peek	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 took	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		a quick peek		peek			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent peek=Theme at it=Asset

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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