Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…
Did the girl see her mum young in the mirror, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: see · To what, where: mum
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mirror | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mirror | det |
| 10 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 young | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 see | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | the girl | girl's mum | young property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |
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 right answer
yeah, young and gorgeous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 young | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gorgeous | cc |
| 5 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she looked old
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | she | old property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
yeah, young and dead pretty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 young | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dead | cc |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 young | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, young and gorgeous, like proper stunning, with her hair all done up
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 young | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gorgeous | cc |
| 5 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stunning | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 stunning | mark |
| 8 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 9 stunning | advmod |
| 9 | stunning | stun | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 young | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hair | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 young | obl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 done | advmod |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hair | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 done | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stun | gerund | properly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do up | participle | her hair not said here | all property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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