Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…
★★★ «Then the Head Chief laughed; then the Stranger-man; then Tegumai; then all the Tribe.» Who laughed third?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: laugh · To what, where: Stranger man
This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ «Then the Head Chief laughed; then the Stranger-man; then Tegumai; then all the Tribe.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 5 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Chief | det |
| 7 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chief | compound |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 man | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Stranger | punct |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tegumai | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 Tegumai | advmod |
| 18 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tribe | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 Tribe | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Tribe | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tribe | det |
| 23 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tribe | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | past | ★ | the Stranger man | then | Tegumai obl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: Who laughed third?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | third | third | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | third property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tegumai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Head Chief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Chief | det |
| 2 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Chief | compound |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Stranger-man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | Stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stranger | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
All the Tribe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Tribe | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tribe | det |
| 3 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | 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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