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Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

★★★ Taffy says «inciting» for exciting. Which other word does she bend the same way in this part?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, other word · What happens: say, incite, word, bend · To what, where: same way, part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ Taffy says «inciting» for exciting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
4	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 inciting	punct
7	inciting	incite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 says	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 inciting	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 exciting	case
10	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inciting	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	★						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	incite in a quote	gerund						for exciting	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition

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: Which other word does she bend the same way in this part?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 word	nsubj
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bend	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bend	nsubj
6	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obl:unmarked
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 part	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 part	det
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word								tree rules
2	bend	present · do-support	other word	the same way		this part			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location

The options

Option 1

«Enjoyment» for enjoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Enjoyment	punct
2	Enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Enjoyment	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 enjoying	mark
5	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Enjoyment	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	gerund	Enjoyment not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Incitement» for excitement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Incitement	punct
2	Incitement	incitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Incitement	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 excitement	case
5	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Incitement	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

«Lookingment» for looking, which is a silly word a child would use at the cave door

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Lookingment	punct
2	Lookingment	Lookingment	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looking	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Lookingment	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 looking	mark
5	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 word	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 word	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 word	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
10	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 word	amod
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looking	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 use	aux
15	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 word	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
18	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	compound
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	Lookingment						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		a silly word					tree rules
3	use	would	a child	a silly word not said here		the cave door			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 4

«Excitedment» for enthusiasm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Excitedment	punct
2	Excitedment	excitedment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Excitedment	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 enthusiasm	case
5	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Excitedment	nmod

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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