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Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…

Looking back: like Taffy, Old Man Kangaroo got more than he asked for. What did he ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, Man · What happens: look back, get, ask · To what, where: more

This is test 13 · ★ 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: like Taffy, Old Man Kangaroo got more than he asked for.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 got	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Taffy	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 Taffy	case
5	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Man	punct
7	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Man	amod
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Taffy	conj
9	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Man	flat
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 got	obj
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 asked	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 more	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	14 asked	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						like Taffy and Old Man	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	Looking	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	Man						vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.

Sentence 2: What did he ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 ask	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	Man						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To be left alone to dance on his rock in the middle of Australia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 left	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 left	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dance	mark
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 rock	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rock	nmod:poss
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Australia	case
14	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive · passive						alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
2	dance	to-infinitive				his rock		in the middle of Australia	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 2

To be made strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 made	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · passive						strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To be made different and popular by five o'clock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 made	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 popular	cc
6	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 different	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 o'clock	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 o'clock	nummod
9	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive · passive	five o'clock					different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

To have a pouch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pouch	det
4	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		a pouch					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=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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