Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Looking back: in part 1, which sign meant ah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	10 meant	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	1 Looking	obl
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sign	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 sign	det
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	conj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 meant	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 meant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in part and which sign	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme
2	mean	past	Looking						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

A carp-fish's open mouth, drawn beside the broken spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
2	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 carp	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fish	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouth	amod
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drawn	punct
9	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 mouth	acl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	13 spear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spear	det
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spear	amod
13	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		a carp fish's open mouth not said here		the broken spear			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A pike's closed mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pike	det
2	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 pike	case
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mouth	amod
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A carp-fish's open mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
2	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 carp	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fish	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouth	amod
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A carp-fish's open mouth, with a spear behind it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
2	carp	carp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fish	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 carp	punct
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fish	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouth	amod
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spear	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 spear	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spear	det
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	appos
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spear	nmod

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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