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Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Jake from Bristol: «gurt idea, Tegumai, draw a spear as a whole battle scene.» (gurt = great) What does he actually do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: gurt, draw, do · To what, where: idea, spear, gurt

This is test 14 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Jake from Bristol: «gurt idea, Tegumai, draw a spear as a whole battle scene.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gurt	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Bristol	case
3	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jake	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gurt	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 gurt	punct
6	gurt	gurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gurt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tegumai	punct
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 idea	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 draw	punct
11	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gurt	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spear	det
13	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 scene	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 scene	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scene	amod
17	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scene	compound
18	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gurt	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 gurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gurt in a quote	infinitive	Jake from Bristol	idea					tree rules
2	draw in a quote	infinitive	Jake from Bristol not said here	a spear				as a whole battle scene	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent spear=Result as scene=Attribute

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.

Sentence 2: (gurt = great) What does he actually do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 gurt	punct
2	gurt	gurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 great	punct
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gurt	amod
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gurt	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	Jake	gurt				actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Draws a wavy battle line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 line	det
3	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 line	amod
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Draws	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present		a wavy battle line					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme

Option 2

Nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Draws one straight line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 line	nummod
3	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 line	amod
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Draws	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present		one straight line					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme

Option 4

Draws a dot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dot	det
3	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Draws	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present		a dot					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme

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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