Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

What would happen if every sound had no fixed picture?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sound · What happens: happen, have, fix · To what, where: fixed picture

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 picture	det
9	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 picture	amod
10	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	every sound	no fixed picture	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
3	fix	participle			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Daddy would draw only carp-fish all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 draw	aux
3	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 fish	advmod
5	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 carp	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	would	Daddy	carp fish			day		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The baby would learn to talk much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the baby						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk	to-infinitive	the baby not said here					fast property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody could be sure how to read the signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 sure	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 read	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 signs	det
9	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	Nobody					sure property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	the signs					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic

Option 4

Every cave on the hill would be painted over and the children would have to learn all the sounds by heart

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	nsubj:pass
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cave	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 painted	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 painted	aux:pass
8	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 painted	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 painted	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 learn	mark
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sounds	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sounds	det
19	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 learn	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 heart	case
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	paint over	would · passive		every cave on the hill	over property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	have	would	the children			tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive	the children not said here	all sounds	by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic

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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