Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Looking back: what did Tegumai pay the Stranger-man for the mud?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: look back, pay · To what, where: Stranger man

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 88 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pay	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pay	nsubj
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	Stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Stranger	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	iobj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 mud	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mud	det
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	pay	past · do-support	Tegumai		the Stranger man			for the mud	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Recipient what=Asset for mud=Theme

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

Two skins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 skins	nummod
2	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three bundles of dried meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bundles	nummod
2	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 meat	case
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meat	amod
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

One soft beaver-skin hood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hood	amod
3	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 beaver	punct
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hood	compound
6	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two soft deerskins with fringes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 deerskins	nummod
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deerskins	amod
3	deerskins	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fringes	case
5	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deerskins	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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