Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…

Looking back: Tegumai's daughter is called «Best Beloved» here. Whom does Kipling call «O Best Beloved» all through the book?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, Kipling · What happens: look back, call · To what, where: daughter, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 84 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: Tegumai's daughter is called «Best Beloved» here.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 called	csubj:pass
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tegumai	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Beloved	punct
10	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 Beloved	amod
11	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 Beloved	punct
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 called	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		Tegumai's daughter					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call speech: assert	present · passive	Looking			here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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.

Sentence 2: Whom does Kipling call «O Best Beloved» all through the book?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 call	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
3	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 Beloved	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	8 Beloved	vocative
7	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 Beloved	amod
8	Beloved	Beloved	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	parataxis
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 Beloved	punct
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 book	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 book	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 book	det
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · do-support	Kipling			the book			tree rules

The options

Option 1

The child listening to the stories told by the storyteller in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 child	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listening	obl
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stories	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 storyteller	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storyteller	det
10	storyteller	storyteller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cave	det
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 storyteller	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund	the child not said here					to the stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	participle		the stories not said here				by the storyteller in the cave	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Every child who has ever sat on a parent's knee and listened to a story

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listened	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sat	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 sat	advmod
6	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 child	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 knee	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 parent	det
9	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knee	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 parent	case
11	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
13	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 story	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 story	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · perfect	every child			a parent's knee	ever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
2	listen	past	every child					to a story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The small child on the knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knee	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knee	det
6	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The child listening to the stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 child	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund	the child not said here					to the stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme

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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