Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

★★★ Careful: which sign did Tegumai draw first, the very first time, for ah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign · What happens: draw

This is test 17 · ★ 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 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 draw	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 sign	det
7	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draw	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 draw	aux
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 draw	nsubj
10	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Careful	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 draw	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 first	advmod
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 draw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ah	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ah	case
19	ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 draw	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · do-support	which sign				time	first property	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.

The options

Option 1

Taffy drew a snake first, then Tegumai drew the carp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 drew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drew	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 drew	advmod
8	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 drew	nsubj
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 carp	det
11	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Taffy	a snake				first property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
2	draw	past	Tegumai	the carp			then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carp=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Taffy drew a fish-mouth, then Daddy drew one with a feeler, and then the tail was drawn last of all by Mia

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fish	punct
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drew	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 drew	advmod
9	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 drew	nsubj
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 drew	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 feeler	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 feeler	det
14	feeler	feeler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drew	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drawn	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drawn	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 drawn	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tail	det
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drawn	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drawn	aux:pass
21	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 drawn	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 last	nmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 Mia	case
26	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Taffy	a fish mouth			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
2	draw	past	Daddy	one	then	with a feeler	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	draw	past · passive	Mia	the tail	then	last property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

None: Taffy drew the first ah-sign, then Daddy drew a better one

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 drew	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sign	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 sign	amod
7	ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 sign	discourse
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ah	punct
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 drew	advmod
12	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 drew	nsubj
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	None	the first sign					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	draw	past	Daddy	a better one			then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

Tegumai drew a carp's mouth first, then Taffy drew a better one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carp	det
4	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 carp	case
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 drew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drew	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drew	advmod
10	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 drew	nsubj
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 one	det
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Tegumai	a carp's mouth				first property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
2	draw	past	Taffy	a better one			then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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