Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp…

Real life: where did our letter O come from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life, letter, our · What happens: do, come, letter · To what, where: letter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	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	O	o	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 letter	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 come	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Real life	our letter	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Eventuality
2	come	infinitive	our letter not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	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

A hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A picture of a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A picture of an eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 picture	det
2	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 eye	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 eye	det
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picture	nmod

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

Option 4

A fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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