Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 22: th…
is it a superstition or real magic, lol?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: superstition
This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 superstition | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 superstition | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 superstition | det |
| 4 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 magic | cc |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magic | amod |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 superstition | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 superstition | punct |
| 9 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 superstition | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 superstition | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a superstition or real magic | 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 · ← Mova's choice
a rumour people repeat, nothing more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rumour | det |
| 2 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 repeat | nsubj |
| 4 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 repeat | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 repeat | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present | rumour people | nothing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
just a superstition, not real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 superstition | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 superstition | det |
| 3 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 real | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 real | advmod |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 superstition | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a folk belief, not proven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 belief | det |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belief | compound |
| 3 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proven | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 proven | advmod |
| 6 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 belief | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prove | participle | a folk belief not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
real magic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 magic | amod |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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