Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Looking back: what did Taffy draw to show the way through the swamp?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy · What happens: look back, draw, show · To what, where: way, swamp

This is test 14 · ★ 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 draw	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 draw	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 swamp	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swamp	det
14	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	draw	past · do-support	Taffy			tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	Taffy not said here	the way	the swamp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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 swamp's dark water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swamp	det
2	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 swamp	case
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The beavers' heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beavers	det
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heads	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 beavers	case
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The beavers' heads, drawn in a row to show the route through the swamp

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beavers	det
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heads	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 beavers	case
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drawn	punct
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heads	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 row	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 row	det
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawn	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 drawn	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 route	det
13	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 swamp	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 swamp	det
16	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		the beavers's heads not said here		a row			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in row=Destination
2	show	to-infinitive		the route		the swamp			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent route=Recipient

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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