Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…
Was the stepmum nice at the start, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmum · What happens: be · To what, where: start
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nice | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmum | det |
| 3 | stepmum | stepmum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 start | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nice | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 nice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmum | the start and mate | nice property | 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
nah, she was mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | cop |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | mean property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, her first smiles were nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nice | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 smiles | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 smiles | amod |
| 5 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nice | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nice | cop |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | her first smiles | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smile | her = she | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
yeah, she was alright at first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 alright | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alright | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alright | cop |
| 5 | alright | alright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 alright | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | alright property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, she was cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | cold property | tree rules |
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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