Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Looking back: what is the river called, where Tegumai and Taffy fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, be, call · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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	7 river	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Looking	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 river	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 river	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fish	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 fish	advmod
11	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fish	compound
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Taffy	cc
13	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tegumai	conj
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 river	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 river	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund		the river and Tegumai fish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	Looking	the river and Tegumai fish	tree rules
3	call	participle		the river and Tegumai fish not said here	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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

Nile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Amazon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Amazon	det
2	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Wagai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wagai	det
2	Wagai	Wagai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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