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

Ivy: «they made the whole alphabet in like five minutes, slay.» (slay = brilliant) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, you · What happens: make, slay, put · To what, where: whole alphabet, alphabet

This is test 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. 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

Sentence 1: Ivy: «they made the whole alphabet in like five minutes, slay.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Ivy	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 alphabet	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 alphabet	amod
8	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
10	like	like	INTJ	_	12 minutes	discourse
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 minutes	nummod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
14	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	they	the whole alphabet			minute	Ivy vocative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alphabet=Product
2	slay in a quote	infinitive	they not said here						vn murder-42.1 «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.

Sentence 2: (slay = brilliant) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 slay	punct
2	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 brilliant	punct
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slay	conj
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 slay	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 slay	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Put	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	6 Put	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	imperative	you not said here						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	alphabet				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It took about two thousand years

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 thousand	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thousand	compound
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It took an afternoon, an evening and the whole next day, with many people helping

The tree, 15 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	parataxis
17	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 people	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				afternoon; evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	help	gerund	many people not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It took an afternoon, an evening and the whole next day, and they drew it in smoke

The tree, 17 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	nsubj
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 smoke	case
19	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				afternoon; evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	draw	past	they	it		smoke			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in smoke=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It took an afternoon, an evening and the whole next day

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It				afternoon; evening		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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