Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

Looking back: what did the Stranger-man give Taffy to show he meant no harm?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stranger man, man · What happens: look back, give, show, mean · To what, where: Taffy, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 give	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Stranger	punct
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 give	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 give	xcomp
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 meant	nsubj
15	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 show	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 harm	det
17	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meant	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	give	past · do-support	the Stranger man		Taffy	tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	the Stranger man not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean	past	man	no harm		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic

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

A fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A red-tipped feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feather	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tipped	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 red	punct
4	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feather	amod
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	participle							vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A piece of birch-bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 bark	case
4	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bark	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 birch	punct
6	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 4

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	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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