Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Looking back: why did Tegumai draw a feeler on the carp-mouth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tegumai · What happens: look back, draw · To what, where: feeler, carp mouth

This is test 12 · ★★ 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 draw	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 draw	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	aux
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feeler	det
9	feeler	feeler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouth	det
12	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouth	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 carp	punct
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	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	draw	past · do-support	Tegumai	a feeler		the carp mouth			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feeler=Theme on mouth=Destination

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

So it would not look like a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 snake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	would	it					like a snake	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So it would not be mistaken for a perch or trout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 mistaken	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mistaken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mistaken	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mistaken	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mistaken	aux:pass
6	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 perch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 perch	det
9	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistaken	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 trout	cc
11	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mistake	would · passive		it				for a perch or trout	tree rules

Option 3

So it would not be mistaken for a perch or trout, which are both common in the pool and stream

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 mistaken	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mistaken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mistaken	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mistaken	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mistaken	aux:pass
6	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 perch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 perch	det
9	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistaken	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 trout	cc
11	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perch	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 common	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 common	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 common	cop
15	both	both	ADV	_	16 common	advmod
16	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 perch	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 pool	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pool	det
19	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 common	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stream	cc
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pool	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mistake	would · passive		it				for a perch or trout	tree rules
2	is	present	a perch or trout			the pool and stream		both, common property	tree rules

Option 4

So it would not be mistaken for a perch or trout, since Daddy had caught only carp that morning

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 mistaken	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mistaken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mistaken	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mistaken	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mistaken	aux:pass
6	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 perch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 perch	det
9	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mistaken	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 trout	cc
11	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perch	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
13	since	since	SCONJ	_	16 caught	mark
14	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 caught	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mistaken	conj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 carp	advmod
18	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 morning	det
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carp	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mistake	would · passive		it				for a perch or trout	tree rules
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		Daddy					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary carp=Theme

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