Test 10 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Looking back: in part 2, what did «yo» mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: look back, mean · To what, where: part

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 part	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 mean	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 yo	punct
11	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mean	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 yo	punct
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 part	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	mean	past · do-support	yo	part					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Good river-water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 river	punct
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Bad fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Bad snake-mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mud	amod
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mud	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snake	punct
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bad swamp-water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
2	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 swamp	punct
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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