Test 6 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so…

Real life: what is the «rebus» idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: be · To what, where: rebus idea

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 idea	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 idea	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 idea	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 idea	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 rebus	punct
8	rebus	rebus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 idea	compound
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rebus	punct
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real life	the rebus idea					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

Drawing a whole sentence as one big scene

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sentence	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentence	amod
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drawing	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 scene	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 scene	nummod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scene	amod
8	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drawing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		a whole sentence				as one big scene	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sentence=Result as scene=Attribute

Option 2

Drawing pictures of things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pictures	amod
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pictures	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Using a picture for its sound, like an eye and a saw for «I saw»

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sound	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sound	nmod:poss
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eye	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saw	det
13	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eye	conj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 saw	mark
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Using	advcl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a picture				for picture's sound; like a eye and a saw	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent picture=Theme for sound=Eventuality
2	see in a quote	past	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Using pictures to show the meaning only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Using	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Using	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meaning	det
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	4 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		pictures					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive		the meaning					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meaning=Recipient

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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