Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

★★★ Counting: in this part they make signs for how many different sounds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, they · What happens: count, make · To what, where: signs, part

This is test 16 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Counting	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	SCONJ	_	4 Counting	mark
4	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 part	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Counting	conj
11	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 sounds	case
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sounds	amod
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sounds	amod
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 signs	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Counting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund	★						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	make	present	they	signs		this part		for many different sounds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Product for sound=Asset

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

Four: ah, yer, oh, mm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 mm	punct
3	ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 mm	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ah	punct
5	yer	yer	INTJ	_	9 mm	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yer	punct
7	oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 mm	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oh	punct
9	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	conj

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

Option 2

Five: ah, yer, oh, ssh, ooh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ssh	punct
3	ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ah	punct
5	yer	yer	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yer	punct
7	oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oh	punct
9	ssh	ssh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Five	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ooh	punct
11	ooh	ooh	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Four: ah, yer, oh, ssh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ssh	punct
3	ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ah	punct
5	yer	yer	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yer	punct
7	oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 ssh	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oh	punct
9	ssh	ssh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Four	conj

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

Option 4

Seven different sounds, all written down on birch-bark and kept safe in the back of the cave

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sounds	nummod
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounds	amod
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 written	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 written	nsubj:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sounds	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 written	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 bark	case
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bark	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 birch	punct
11	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 written	conj
14	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kept	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 back	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cave	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cave	det
20	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	participle · passive	Seven different sounds not said here	all		birch bark			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bark=Destination
2	keep	participle	Seven different sounds not said here			the back of the cave		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location

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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