Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…
Real life: where did true writing first begin, about 5,000 years ago?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write, begin
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 true | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | aux |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | parataxis |
| 7 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 true | advcl |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 writing | advmod |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 writing | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 5,000 | advmod |
| 12 | 5,000 | 5000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 true | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | first property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
In Mesopotamia, from pictures and counting marks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Mesopotamia | case |
| 2 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pictures | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 pictures | case |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Mesopotamia | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 marks | cc |
| 7 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 marks | amod |
| 8 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Mesopotamia | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
On Merrow Down in Surrey, with a girl called Taffy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Down | case |
| 2 | Merrow | Merrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Down | compound |
| 3 | Down | Down | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Surrey | case |
| 5 | Surrey | Surrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Down | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 girl | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Down | appos |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 girl | acl |
| 11 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
In Rome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Rome | case |
| 2 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In a cave by the Wagai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cave | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Wagai | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wagai | det |
| 6 | Wagai | Wagai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cave | nmod |
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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