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title: so what was in the mirror, no cap? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what was in the mirror, no cap? Test 5 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 5 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Mirror of Matsuyama, part 22: th…

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so what was in the mirror, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mirror

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This is test 5 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1362-pg4018-part22/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1362-pg4018-part22:t5:1
# text = so what was in the mirror, no cap?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the mirror |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

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her mum's face, kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1362-pg4018-part22:t5:o1:1
# text = her mum's face, kinda
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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just her own face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1362-pg4018-part22:t5:o2:1
# text = just her own face
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1362-pg4018-part22:t5:o3:1
# text = a ghost
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1362-pg4018-part22:t5:o4:1
# text = nothing
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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