Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

Which is TRUE about this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part; true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tegumai is truly excited and attends to Taffy's game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 excited	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	cop
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 excited	advmod
4	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 attends	cc
6	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 excited	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 game	case
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 game	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Taffy	case
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tegumai					excited, truly property	tree rules
2	attend	present	Tegumai not said here					to Taffy's game	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to game=Theme

Option 2

Tegumai is cross with Taffy's game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cross	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 game	case
5	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 game	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Taffy	case
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tegumai					with Taffy's game; cross property	tree rules

Option 3

Tegumai pretends to like the game but he's not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pretends	nsubj
2	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 like	mark
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretends	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 's	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 's	nsubj
9	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pretends	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend	present	Tegumai		tree rules
2	like	to-infinitive	Tegumai not said here	the game	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme
3	not be	present	Tegumai		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Tegumai is bored but listens politely to Taffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bored	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 listens	cc
5	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	politely	politely	ADV	_	5 listens	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Taffy	case
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tegumai					bored property	tree rules
2	listen	present	Tegumai not said here		Taffy			politely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to taffy=Theme

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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