Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

Real life: how did our letter A begin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life, our · What happens: do, letter · To what, where: letter

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 letter	nmod:poss
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 begin	det
9	begin	begin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Real life	our letter					tree rules
2	letter		our						nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

As a picture of an ox's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 picture	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 head	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ox	det
6	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 ox	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picture	nmod

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

Option 2

A snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

As a picture of a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 picture	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picture	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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