Test 17 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…
★★★ Taffy, Tegumai, Teshumai all start with T. Which of these Tribe words, also in the story, starts with a sound they had already made a sign for BEFORE the T?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, words · What happens: start, make · To what, where: sign
This is test 17 · ★★ 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 start | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Taffy | case |
| 4 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tegumai | punct |
| 6 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Taffy | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Teshumai | punct |
| 8 | Teshumai | Teshumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Taffy | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 start | nsubj |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 T. | case |
| 12 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 start | obl |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 words | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 words | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 words | det |
| 16 | Tribe | Tribe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 words | compound |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 T. | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 story | punct |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 story | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 words | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 starts | punct |
| 24 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 start | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sound | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sound | det |
| 27 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 starts | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 30 | already | already | ADV | _ | 31 made | advmod |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 sound | acl:relcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sign | det |
| 33 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 T | case |
| 35 | BEFORE | before | ADP | _ | 37 T | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 T | det |
| 37 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 start | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | ★ ★ Taffy and Tegumai and Teshumai | with T. | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with t.=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | start | present | ★ ★ Taffy and Tegumai and Teshumai not said here | with a sound | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with sound=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | words = word | a sign | for the T | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Product for t=Asset |
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
Yalas-ya
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yalas | Yalas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yalas | punct |
| 3 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yalas | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Shu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Maru
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maru | Maru | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Shumai
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shumai | Shumai | PROPN | 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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