Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

★★★ Careful: who in this part understands the picture exactly as Taffy meant it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy · What happens: understand, mean · To what, where: picture, part

This is test 17 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 understands	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 understands	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 part	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 part	det
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understands	obl
10	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 picture	det
12	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understands	obj
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	16 meant	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 meant	mark
15	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 meant	nsubj
16	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 understands	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meant	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present		the picture		this part			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
2	mean	past	Taffy	picture				exactly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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

Nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 2

Some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root

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

Option 3

Tegumai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Teshumai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teshumai	Teshumai	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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