Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 22: th…

lol the dad said her face is like mum's like a melon, that's wild

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, face, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 melon	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 melon	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 melon	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 melon	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 melon	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 melon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 melon	det
13	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wild	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 wild	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wild	cop
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 melon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	her face	like a melon	tree rules
3	is	present	that	wild property	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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, two sides of one melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sides	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sides	nummod
4	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 melon	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 melon	nummod
7	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sides	nmod

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

Option 2

yep, like two pears, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 pears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 pears	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pears	nummod
5	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pears	punct
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 pears	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, the dad said her face looks like mum's face and then he got really emotional about it all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 face	case
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mum	case
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 got	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 emotional	advmod
18	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 got	xcomp
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 emotional	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	her face			like mum's face	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	get	past	dad	all	then	emotional property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, he compared her to a lotus that grows up out of the mud in the pond

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 compared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 compared	nsubj
4	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 compared	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lotus	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lotus	det
8	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 compared	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grows	nsubj
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lotus	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 grows	compound:prt
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 mud	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mud	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mud	det
15	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grows	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 pond	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pond	det
18	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	past	he	her = she				to a lotus	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	grow up	present	a lotus			the mud		in the pond	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mud=Location

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