Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…
Real life: when did writing reach Britain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write, reach · To what, where: Britain
This is test 8 · ★ 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 writing | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 writing | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 writing | aux |
| 6 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 life | conj |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 writing | xcomp |
| 8 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · do-support | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | reach | infinitive | Britain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent britain=Theme |
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 · ← Mova's choice
It never did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | It | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
200 years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
With the Romans, about 2,000 years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 Romans | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Romans | det |
| 3 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 2,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Romans | conj |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In the Stone Age, with Taffy and her Daddy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Age | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Age | det |
| 3 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | compound |
| 4 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Taffy | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Taffy | case |
| 7 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Age | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Daddy | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Taffy | conj |
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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