Test 5 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Which is TRUE about this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part; true property	tree rules

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

Daddy reads the snake sign aloud to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sign	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	compound
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
6	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 reads	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Daddy	the snake sign	her = she			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Topic to she=Recipient

Option 2

Taffy writes the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tegumai tells Taffy about the rain without saying a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 rain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 saying	mark
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tells	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Tegumai		Taffy			about the rain	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent taffy=Recipient about rain=Topic
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Tegumai not said here	a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4

Taffy shows Daddy a frog on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shows	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frog	det
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Taffy	a frog	Daddy	the wall			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daddy=Recipient frog=Topic

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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