Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…

Looking back: like Taffy, which earlier hero was always asking questions?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Taffy, Looking · What happens: look back, hero, ask · To what, where: questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asking	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Taffy	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Taffy	case
5	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hero	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hero	nsubj
8	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 hero	amod
9	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Taffy	appos
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asking	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 asking	advmod
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 asking	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 asking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			like Taffy	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hero		Taffy			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	Looking	questions	always property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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

The Crab, who asked the Whale why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crab	det
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Whale	det
7	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Crab		the Whale				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient

Option 2

Kolokolo Bird, who asked the Crocodile and the whole river about everything under the sun

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kolokolo	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kolokolo	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crocodile	det
7	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 river	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 river	amod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Crocodile	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 everything	case
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 river	nmod
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 sun	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 everything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Kolokolo		the Crocodile and the whole river about everything				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crocodile=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Elephant's Child, full of «'satiable curtiosity»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Child	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 curtiosity	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 curtiosity	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 curtiosity	punct
10	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 curtiosity	amod
11	curtiosity	curtiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

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

Option 4

The Whale, always curious about the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Whale	det
2	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 curious	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 curious	advmod
5	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Whale	amod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curious	obl

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

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