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Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…

Looking back: the Tribe was wrong about the picture. Which earlier character was wrong about a nose that would not shrink?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tribe, nose · What happens: look back, be, not shrink

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Looking back: the Tribe was wrong about the picture.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wrong	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tribe	det
5	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 picture	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 picture	det
10	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Tribe not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the Tribe					about the picture; wrong property	tree rules

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: Which earlier character was wrong about a nose that would not shrink?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wrong	nsubj
2	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 character	amod
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrong	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nose	det
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrong	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 shrink	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shrink	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 shrink	advmod
12	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nose	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						about a nose; wrong property	tree rules
2	not shrink	would	a nose						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Painted Jaguar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		Jaguar					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jaguar=Theme

Option 2

The Kangaroo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kangaroo	det
2	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Camel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Elephant's Child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	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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