--- title: Dude, what's on the back of the mirror? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics description: Dude, what's on the back of the mirror? Test 6 · ★ 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 eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1360-pg4018-part20/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 20: th… Dude, what's on the back of the mirror? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** back This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t6:1 # text = Dude, what's on the back of the mirror? 1 Dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Dude | | | the back | | of the mirror | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Bamboo and reeds ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t6:o1:1 # text = Bamboo and reeds 1 Bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 reeds reed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reed** | present | Bamboo *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Pine trees and storks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t6:o2:1 # text = Pine trees and storks 1 Pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Pine trees, storks, and a rising sun ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t6:o3:1 # text = Pine trees, storks, and a rising sun 1 Pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 amod _ _ 9 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Cherry blossoms ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1360-pg4018-part20:t6:o4:1 # text = Cherry blossoms 1 Cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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