Exam question 4 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 22: th…

Which image did the father employ to express the daughter's resemblance to her late mother?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: image · What happens: employ, express · To what, where: resemblance, late mother

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1362 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 22: the father finds the mirror, and the stepmother begs pardon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 image	det
2	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 express	mark
8	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resemblance	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 daughter	case
12	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 express	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 mother	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 express	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which image						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	express	to-infinitive	which image not said here	the daughter's resemblance	image's late mother				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent resemblance=Theme to mother=Recipient

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

The two halves of a melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 halves	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 halves	nummod
3	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 melon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 melon	det
6	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 halves	nmod

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

Option 2

Two halves of a pear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 halves	nummod
2	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pear	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pear	det
5	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 halves	nmod

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

Option 3

The petals of a lotus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 petals	det
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lotus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lotus	det
5	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 petals	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The two halves of a melon cut open to show its bright red flesh and dark seeds clearly

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 halves	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 halves	nummod
3	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 melon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 melon	det
6	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 halves	nmod
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 melon	acl
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cut	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flesh	nmod:poss
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flesh	amod
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flesh	amod
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seeds	cc
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seeds	amod
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flesh	conj
18	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	10 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle		a melon not said here				open property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	show	to-infinitive		melon's bright red flesh and dark seeds				clearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flesh=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1362-pg4018-part22/e4/