Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…
Looking back: in the Armadillo story, Painted Jaguar got muddled by words; here the Tribe gets muddled by what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: words · What happens: look back, muddle · To what, where: Painted, Tribe
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | 12 muddled | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | Armadillo | Armadillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 9 | Painted | Painted | PROPN | _ | 12 muddled | nsubj |
| 10 | Jaguar | Jaguar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Painted | flat |
| 11 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 muddled | aux:pass |
| 12 | muddled | muddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 muddled | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 muddled | punct |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 muddled | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tribe | det |
| 18 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 muddled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 muddled | aux:pass |
| 20 | muddled | muddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 muddled | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 muddled | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 muddled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | words not said here | in the Armadillo story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | muddle | past · passive | words | Painted | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | muddle | present · passive | the Tribe | here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A picture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A picture drawn by a child of the Tribe on bark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 picture | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 child | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tribe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tribe | det |
| 9 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 child | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bark | case |
| 11 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | a picture not said here | bark | by a child of the Tribe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bark=Destination |
Option 3
A song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 song | det |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A drum beat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beat | det |
| 2 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | compound |
| 3 | beat | beat | NOUN | 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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