Test 12 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

Why did the girl stop crying so much?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: stop, cry

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 crying	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	the girl						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the girl not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

the mirror cheered her up after her mum died and her dad was so sad

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheered	nsubj
3	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheered	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 cheered	compound:prt
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 died	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheered	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sad	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dad	nmod:poss
12	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sad	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sad	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 sad	advmod
15	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 died	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cheer up	past	the mirror	her = she		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	die	past	her mum			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	mum's dad		sad property	tree rules

Option 2

the mirror cheered her up so much that she stopped crying at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheered	nsubj
3	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheered	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 cheered	compound:prt
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	3 cheered	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stopped	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stopped	nsubj
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheered	advcl
11	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cheer up	past	the mirror	her = she		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	stop	past	she			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here		night	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the mirror cheered her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mirror	det
2	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheered	nsubj
3	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheered	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 cheered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer up	past	the mirror	her = she					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

she found a new friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	she	a new friend					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

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