Test 12 · Mirrors, shadows and colours

Mia says a mirror flips things upside down. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, mirror · What happens: say, flip · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 84 «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flips	nsubj
5	flips	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flips	obj
7	upside	upside	ADV	_	8 down	advmod
8	down	down	ADV	_	5 flips	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	flip	present	a mirror	things				down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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

Yes, but only in a big mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 mirror	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 mirror	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 mirror	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 mirror	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mirror	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mirror	amod
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, a mirror shows things exactly as they are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 shows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mirror	det
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shows	obj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 are	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a mirror	things					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient clause=Topic
2	does	present	things = thing					exactly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it shows writing back to front, not upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 shows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shows	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 writing	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 writing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 upside	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 upside	advmod
11	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 upside	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	it	upside					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write back	gerund			front				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to front=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, everything in a mirror is upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 upside	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 upside	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mirror	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mirror	det
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everything	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 upside	cop
8	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 upside	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	everything	upside				down property	tree rules

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