Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

Real life: which is a picture-sign that works well today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life, picture sign · What happens: be, work · To what, where: picture sign

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sign	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sign	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sign	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sign	det
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 picture	punct
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	parataxis
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 works	nsubj
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sign	acl:relcl
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 works	advmod
13	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 works	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real life	a picture sign					tree rules
2	work	present	a picture sign				today	well property	vn employment-95.3 «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

A long written letter explaining the rules of the road to every driver in the town

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 letter	amod
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 letter	amod
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	explaining	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 letter	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rules	det
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 explaining	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rules	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 driver	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 driver	det
13	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explaining	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 driver	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	explain speech: assert	gerund	a long written letter not said here	the rules of the road	every driver in the town	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rule=Topic to driver=Recipient
3	rule		the road			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

A shop sign for the ice cream van

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 van	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 van	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cream	compound
7	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 van	compound
8	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A road sign showing children crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sign	acl
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 showing	obj
6	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 children	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	a road sign not said here		children				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	cross	gerund	children not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A tree drawn on a sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tree	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sign	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		a tree not said here		a sign			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sign=Destination

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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