Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…
Looking back: in part 1, what did Taffy pull from the Stranger-man?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy · What happens: look back, pull · To what, where: part
This is test 11 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 part | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 part | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pull | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 pull | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pull | aux |
| 10 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 part | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stranger | punct |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | pull | past · do-support | Taffy | part | from the Stranger man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent what=Theme from man=Initial_Location |
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
His hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His birch-bark, which he had kept for his own little girl-daughter
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bark | nmod:poss |
| 2 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bark | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 birch | punct |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 kept | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | His birch bark | for his own little girl daughter | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The shark's tooth from his necklace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 shark | case |
| 4 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 necklace | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tooth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
His spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 spear | nmod:poss |
| 2 | spear | spear | 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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