Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

Wait, what did the stepmum reckon the girl was doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stepmum, girl · What happens: wait, reckon, do

This is test 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. 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmum	det
6	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reckon	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reckon	past · do-support	the stepmum	tree rules
3	do	past · progressive	the girl	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 · ✓ the right answer

cursing her with a doll thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cursing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 thing	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	gerund		her = she				with a doll thing	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

cursing her with a doll thing and a load of pins from the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cursing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 thing	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 load	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 load	det
9	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 pins	case
11	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 load	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 market	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 market	det
14	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	gerund		her = she				with a doll thing and a load of pins from the market	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

making a doll of her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doll	det
3	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 face	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doll	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		a doll of her face					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset doll=Product

Option 4

cursing her with a doll thing she hid under the bed every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cursing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 thing	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursing	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hid	nsubj
8	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hid	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cursing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	gerund		her = she			night	with a doll thing	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	hide	past	she	a doll thing not said here		the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Patient under bed=Location

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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