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

Why is writing «yo» better than Taffy's picture-letter way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: write

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 writing	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writing	aux
3	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 better	csubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 yo	punct
5	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	nsubj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 yo	punct
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	14 way	case
9	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Taffy	case
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 letter	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 picture	punct
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	compound
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 better	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct

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

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 · ✓ the right answer

It gives the exact word, so it can't be read as something else

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 read	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	nsubj:pass
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 read	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 read	aux:pass
12	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gives	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 something	case
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 read	obl
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	the exact word					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	not read	can · passive		word				as something	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as something=Attribute

Option 2

It is prettier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prettier	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 prettier	cop
3	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					pretty property	tree rules

Option 3

It makes the picture bigger and so clearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 picture	det
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 makes	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 clearer	advmod
8	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the picture				big, clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material picture=Product

Option 4

It saves paint, and needs fewer pictures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 needs	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saves	conj
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 pictures	amod
8	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	It	paint					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme
2	need	present		fewer pictures					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot picture=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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