Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

Wasn't the mum ill for ages before she died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, she · What happens: not be, die

This is test 13 · ★ 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	5 ill	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ill	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	nsubj
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 died	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ages	case
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ill	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the mum				for ages	ill property	tree rules
2	die	past	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

yeah, she was pale and sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 pale	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pale	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pale	cop
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sick	cc
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					pale property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was thin and wasted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 thin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wasted	cc
7	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					thin property	tree rules
2	waste	participle	she not said here						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, she was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					fine property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, she was tired and wan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wan	cc
7	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tired property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						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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