Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Identify the sign adopted by Tegumai for the rough sound r.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, adopt · To what, where: sign

This is exam question 1 of lesson 89 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sign	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Tegumai	case
6	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 adopted	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 r.	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 r.	det
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 r.	amod
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 r.	compound
11	r.	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adopted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sign					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
2	adopt	participle		the sign not said here				by Tegumai; for the rough sound r.	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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

A saw-edge reduced to a single tooth, drawn beside the plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 edge	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 edge	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 tooth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tooth	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tooth	amod
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reduced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drawn	punct
11	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 edge	acl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 plank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plank	det
14	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle		a saw edge not said here				to a single tooth goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to tooth=Goal
2	draw	participle		a saw edge not said here		the plank			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A saw-edge reduced to a single tooth, with the plank and canoe beside it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 edge	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 edge	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 tooth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tooth	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tooth	amod
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reduced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plank	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 plank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plank	det
13	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reduced	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 canoe	cc
15	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plank	conj
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plank	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle		a saw edge not said here				to a single tooth goal; with the plank beside canoe and canoe	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to tooth=Goal

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A saw-edge reduced to a single tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 edge	det
2	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 edge	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 tooth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tooth	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tooth	amod
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	participle		a saw edge not said here				to a single tooth goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to tooth=Goal

Option 4

A fish with a broken fin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 fin	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fin	det
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fin	amod
6	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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