---
title: Lol, what was the mirror made of? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was the mirror made of? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/t5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/) / t5

# Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lol, what was the mirror made of?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** mirror

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1360 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1360-pg4018-part20/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t5:1
# text = Lol, what was the mirror made of?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mirror |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the mirror *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t5:o1:1
# text = Wood
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t5:o2:1
# text = Glass
1	Glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shiny metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t5:o3:1
# text = Shiny metal
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bright stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t5:o4:1
# text = Bright stone
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/t4/)
- next →: [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/t6/)
- ↑ back to [Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: the father leaves, returns with gifts, and the mother falls ill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/)