Test 8 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…
Did the dad reckon his girl was a witch?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, girl · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: witch
This is test 8 · ★ 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 reckon | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dad | det |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nmod:poss |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 witch | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 witch | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckon | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past · do-support | the dad | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | dad's girl | a witch | 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
yeah, a witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 witch | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 witch | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, no way, she's too good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 good | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nah | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 good | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | good property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, she's cursed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cursed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cursed | aux |
| 5 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | present · passive | she | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
nah, he thought she was dodgy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dodgy | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dodgy | cop |
| 7 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | she | dodgy 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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