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Test 1 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…

Ruby: «Head Chief was salty and punished Taffy, end of.» (salty = cross) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Head Chief, you · What happens: be, punish, put · To what, where: Taffy, salty cross

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 86 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» 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

Sentence 1: Ruby: «Head Chief was salty and punished Taffy, end of.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 salty	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 salty	punct
4	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Chief	compound
5	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 salty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	cop
7	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ruby	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 punished	cc
9	punished	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 salty	conj
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 punished	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 end	punct
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Taffy	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 end	case
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ruby	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Ruby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Head Chief					salty property	tree rules
2	punish in a quote	past	Head Chief not said here	Taffy					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taffy=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.

Sentence 2: (salty = cross) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
2	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cross	amod
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 cross	punct
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Put	obl:unmarked
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Put	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	6 Put	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	salty cross				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

He sent her away from the Tribe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Tribe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tribe	det
7	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	He	her = she		the Tribe		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from tribe=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He laughed and said she had made a great invention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 invention	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 invention	amod
10	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	He not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past · perfect	she	a great invention					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invention=Product

Option 3

He made her wash the Stranger-man herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Stranger	punct
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	obj
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	her = she				herself = she obl	tree rules
2	wash	infinitive	her = she not said here	the Stranger man					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 4

Right, she was spanked by the whole Tribe, one chief after another, all afternoon

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 spanked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spanked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spanked	aux:pass
5	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 Tribe	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tribe	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tribe	amod
9	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spanked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chief	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 chief	nummod
12	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tribe	appos
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 chief	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chief	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 afternoon	det
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spanked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spank	past · passive	the whole Tribe	she			afternoon		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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