Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Looking back: what did the Tribe think Taffy's beavers were?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, do, think, be · To what, where: Tribe, beavers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	8 think	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tribe	det
7	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beavers	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Taffy	case
11	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	obj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beavers	cop
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past		the Tribe	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribe=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	present	Looking		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		Taffy's beavers	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 · ✓ the right answer

A pack of bad people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pack	det
2	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pack	nmod

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

Option 2

A herd of wild pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 herd	det
2	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pigs	case
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pigs	amod
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 herd	nmod

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

Option 3

A group of friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 friends	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 group	nmod

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

Option 4

Pack of dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 dogs	case
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pack	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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