Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

★★★ Using only the signs from this lesson (carp-mouth ah, carp-tail y, egg o, snake s, drying-poles sh, thin egg oo), which of these could they NOT write yet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, signs · What happens: use, dry, not write · To what, where: signs, lesson, ★ ★ ★

This is test 16 · ★★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ★	acl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 signs	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 signs	det
7	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Using	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 lesson	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lesson	det
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Using	obl
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
12	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouth	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 carp	punct
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
15	ah	ah	INTJ	_	14 mouth	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 y	punct
17	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tail	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 carp	punct
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 y	compound
20	y	y	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 o	punct
22	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 o	compound
23	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 s	punct
25	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 s	compound
26	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sh	punct
28	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 sh	csubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 drying	punct
30	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sh	compound
31	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 oo	punct
33	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 oo	amod
34	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 oo	compound
35	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 oo	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 write	punct
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 write	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 these	case
40	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 which	nmod
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 write	aux
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 write	nsubj
43	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 write	advmod
44	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ★	conj
45	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 write	advmod
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	use	gerund	★ ★ ★ and carp mouth and tail y and egg o and snake s and poles sh not said here	the signs	this lesson		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient
2	dry	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not write	could	signs = sign	★ ★ ★ and carp mouth and tail y and egg o and snake s and poles sh		yet	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 · ← Mova's choice

«Yo-so-sho-ya»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 ya	punct
2	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 ya	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Yo	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 ya	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct
6	sho	sho	NOUN	_	8 ya	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sho	punct
8	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 ya	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Maru»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Maru	punct
2	Maru	Maru	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Maru	punct

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

Option 3

«Shu-ya-so»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ya	punct
2	Shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ya	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Shu	punct
4	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 so	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	4 ya	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ya	punct

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

Option 4

«Yo»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Yo	punct
2	Yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Yo	punct

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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