Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…
Looking back: in the last story, Taffy borrowed a shark's tooth to draw. What does Tegumai use to scratch on bark here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy, Tegumai · What happens: look back, borrow, draw, use, scratch · To what, where: tooth, bark
This is test 13 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Looking back: in the last story, Taffy borrowed a shark's tooth to draw.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 borrowed | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 9 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 borrowed | nsubj |
| 10 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shark | det |
| 12 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 shark | case |
| 14 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrowed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 draw | mark |
| 16 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 borrowed | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 borrowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Taffy not said here | in the last story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past | Taffy | a shark's tooth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | Taffy not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What does Tegumai use to scratch on bark here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 use | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 scratch | mark |
| 6 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bark | case |
| 8 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scratch | obl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 scratch | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · do-support | Tegumai | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | scratch | to-infinitive | Tegumai not said here | bark; here | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bark=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A red ochre stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 3 | ochre | ochre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A shark's tooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 shark | case |
| 4 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A flint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flint | det |
| 2 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bone needle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 needle | det |
| 2 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needle | compound |
| 3 | needle | needle | 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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