Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how many letters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, foretell · To what, where: Head Chief

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	13 foretold	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 story	amod
7	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Chief	det
11	Head	Head	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Chief	compound
12	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 foretold	obl:unmarked
13	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 letters	amod
16	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 foretold	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 foretold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in the first Taffy story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
2	foretell	participle		the Head Chief					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

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

Twenty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 six	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 2

Twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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