Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…

Real life: why is a picture not yet writing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: picture · What happens: not be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	10 writing	appos
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 writing	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 writing	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 picture	det
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writing	nsubj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 writing	advmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 writing	advmod
10	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 writing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a picture				yet	write property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It does not show the exact words, so people can read it differently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 show	advmod
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	obj
14	differently	differently	ADV	_	12 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	present · do-support	It	the exact words					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
2	read	can	people	it				differently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

It does not show the exact words, so people can read it differently, and no one can say which reading is correct

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 show	advmod
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 read	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	obj
14	differently	differently	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 say	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	conj
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 reading	det
22	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 correct	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 correct	cop
24	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not show	present · do-support	It	the exact words		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
2	read	can	people	it	differently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	say speech: assert	can	no one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	which reading		correct property	tree rules

Option 3

It does not show exact words, so readers may interpret it in many ways

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 show	advmod
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 interpret	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 interpret	advmod
9	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 interpret	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 interpret	aux
11	interpret	interpret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 show	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 interpret	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ways	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ways	amod
15	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 interpret	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	present · do-support	It	exact words					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
2	interpret	may	readers	it		many ways			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Pictures show things but not the sounds of spoken words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sounds	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sounds	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sounds	det
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 things	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sounds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Pictures	things but the sounds of spoken words					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
2	speak speech: other	participle							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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