Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

Identify the sound for which the open mouth of a carp-fish was adopted as a sign.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, adopt · To what, where: sound, open mouth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 87 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 adopted	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouth	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mouth	amod
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adopted	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 fish	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fish	det
11	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 carp	punct
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouth	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 adopted	aux:pass
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sound	acl:relcl
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 sign	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sign	det
18	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adopted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sound					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	adopt	past · passive		the open mouth of a carp fish				for the sound; as a sign	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as sign=Attribute

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

Ssh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ssh	Ssh	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The sound oh, made with rounded lips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 sound	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sound	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lips	case
7	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lips	amod
8	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		the sound not said here				with rounded lips	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	round	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yer	Yer	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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