Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…
Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas. What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Child, Tegumai · What happens: look back, set off, carry · To what, where: mendy bag
This is test 13 · ★ 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: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 set | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Elephant | det |
| 5 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Child | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Elephant | case |
| 7 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pounds | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pounds | nummod |
| 13 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bananas | case |
| 15 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pounds | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the Elephant's Child not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | set off | past | the Elephant's Child | with hundred pounds of bananas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 carry | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mendy | mendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bag | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mendy | punct |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · do-support | Tegumai | Tegumai's mendy bag | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Value in bag=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fish-hooks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hooks | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fish | punct |
| 3 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sinews, leather strips, bee's-wax and resin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strips | punct |
| 3 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strips | compound |
| 4 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sinews | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bee's | punct |
| 6 | bee's | bee' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sinews | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wax | punct |
| 8 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bee's | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 resin | cc |
| 10 | resin | resin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wax | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Roots, berries, a knife and a flint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 berries | punct |
| 3 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Roots | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knife | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roots | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flint | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flint | det |
| 9 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roots | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dried fish, a knife and some spare beads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knife | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fish | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beads | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 beads | det |
| 8 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beads | amod |
| 9 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fish | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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