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Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3:…

Ben from Sunderland: «howay, the Wey's always been this size.» (howay = come on) What does the poem say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: howay, poem · What happens: be, come on, say · To what, where: size · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ben from Sunderland: «howay, the Wey's always been this size.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Sunderland	case
3	Sunderland	Sunderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 howay	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 howay	punct
6	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 size	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wey	det
9	Wey	Wey	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 size	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Wey	case
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 been	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 size	cop
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 size	det
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howay	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 howay	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 howay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	participle		the Wey's size					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: (howay = come on) What does the poem say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	howay	howay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poem	det
10	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	infinitive	howay						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the poem						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was a small brook

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	5 brook	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brook	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brook	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brook	amod
5	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a small brook					tree rules

Option 2

It was exactly the same size as it is today

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	6 size	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 size	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 size	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 size	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 today	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 today	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 today	cop
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the same size				exactly property	tree rules
2	is	present	size				as today		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was more than six times bigger then

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 more	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 more	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bigger	obl:unmarked
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 more	conj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 more	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				then	more property	tree rules
2	be						time		tree rules

Option 4

It was dry

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 dry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	cop
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					dry property	tree rules

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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