Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…
Real life: when and where was writing first invented?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write, invent
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 writing | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 writing | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 writing | cc |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 writing | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 writing | aux |
| 8 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 life | parataxis |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 invented | advmod |
| 10 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 writing | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · progressive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | invent | participle | first property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice
About 5,000 years ago in Greece and Italy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Greece | case |
| 6 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Italy | cc |
| 8 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Greece | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 50,000 years ago, in a cave in Spain, and later in many other places around the world
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 50,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Spain | case |
| 10 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cave | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 places | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 places | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 places | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 places | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 places | amod |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 places | amod |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cave | conj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 places | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 5,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia and Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Mesopotamia | case |
| 7 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Egypt | cc |
| 9 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mesopotamia | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 5,000 years ago, first in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and later in India and China and Mexico
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 5,000 | advmod |
| 2 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mesopotamia | punct |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 Mesopotamia | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Mesopotamia | case |
| 8 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ago | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Egypt | cc |
| 10 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mesopotamia | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 later | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 later | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 ago | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 India | case |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 later | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 China | cc |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 India | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mexico | cc |
| 19 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 India | conj |
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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