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Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…

Tegumai says «we must make the best of a bad job». What does he do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tegumai, we · What happens: say, make, do · To what, where: best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Tegumai says «we must make the best of a bad job».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 best	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 job	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 job	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 job	amod
12	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 best	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tegumai						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	must	we	the best of a bad job					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Product

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 he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	Tegumai						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

He sends Taffy home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 home	compound
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	He	Taffy home					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

Sleeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeps	sleep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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

Mends the spear himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mends	mend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spear	det
3	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mends	obj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Mends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	present		the spear					tree rules

Option 4

Goes home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goes	go	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Goes	advmod

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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