Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Looking back: which earlier character said one word, «Humph!», and got something on his back for it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: earlier character · What happens: look back, say, get · To what, where: one word, something, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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 said	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 said	obj
5	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 character	amod
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 word	nummod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Humph	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Humph	punct
12	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Humph	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Humph	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 got	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 got	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 got	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 got	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	earlier character	one word			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme word=Manner
3	get	past	earlier character not said here	something	character's back	for back	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent something=Theme on back=Source

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

Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Camel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Parrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parrot	det
2	Parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Donkey	det
2	Donkey	donkey	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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