Test 3 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

What would happen if they used the plain snake for both s and sh?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: plain snake

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 used	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snake	det
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 snake	amod
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 s	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 s	det
12	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sh	cc
14	sh	sh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 s	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	past	they	the plain snake				for both s and sh	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent snake=Theme for s=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

«Dinner» and «drying-poles» would look the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
2	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poles	cc
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
6	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Dinner	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	Dinner and drying poles	the same					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute

Option 2

«Dinner» and «drying-poles» would look the same, so Taffy would be sent to hang hides when she wanted food

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
2	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poles	cc
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
6	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Dinner	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
16	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	aux:pass
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 look	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hang	mark
21	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
22	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hang	obj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 wanted	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wanted	nsubj
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 look	advcl
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	would	Dinner and drying poles	the same	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	send	would · passive		Taffy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hang	to-infinitive		hides	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
4	want	past	Taffy	food	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3

«Dinner» and «drying-poles» would look the same, and the whole Tribe would argue about it for years

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
2	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Dinner	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 poles	cc
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
6	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 poles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Dinner	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 poles	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 argue	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 argue	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Tribe	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Tribe	amod
18	Tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 argue	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 argue	aux
20	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 look	parataxis
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 argue	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 years	case
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	Dinner and drying poles	the same					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
2	argue speech: disagree	would	the whole Tribe				year	about it	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Taffy would get the poles for dinner each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poles	det
5	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Taffy	the poles			day	for dinner	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pole=Theme for dinner=Source

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