Test 9 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror, part 21: a dying mother…

Lol, how did the mum say she'd talk to the girl after?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: say, talk after · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	10 talk	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk after	would	mum					to the girl	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to girl=Co-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

by letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 letter	case
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

through the mirror, like a face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 mirror	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mirror	det
3	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 face	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 face	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mirror	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

in her sleep, like a dream vision

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 sleep	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nmod:poss
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 vision	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 vision	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vision	det
7	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vision	compound
8	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep		her = she						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

by speaking from her grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 speaking	mark
2	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 grave	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grave	nmod:poss
5	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund				her grave			vn talk-37.5 «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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