Test 2 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Why does Taffy feel a little sad about «shi-las»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Taffy · What happens: feel

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feel	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	obl:unmarked
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 las	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 las	punct
10	shi	shi	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 las	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 las	punct
12	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sad	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	Taffy					sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Her spear sign was too messy to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sign	nmod:poss
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 messy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 messy	advmod
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 read	mark
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 messy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her spear sign	messy property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive	Her spear sign not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sign		Her = she		nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two simple signs could have said «broken spear» without all the trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 signs	nummod
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signs	amod
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 spear	punct
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 spear	amod
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 spear	punct
11	without	without	ADP	_	14 trouble	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 trouble	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trouble	det
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		Two simple signs				without all trouble; broken spear obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	break in a quote	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Two simple signs could have said «broken spear» without all the trouble of the long drawing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 signs	nummod
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signs	amod
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 spear	punct
8	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 spear	amod
9	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 spear	punct
11	without	without	ADP	_	14 trouble	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 trouble	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trouble	det
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 drawing	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drawing	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drawing	amod
18	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trouble	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could · perfect · passive	Two simple signs	without all trouble of the long drawing; broken spear obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	break in a quote	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	trouble		the long drawing		nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Tegumai drew it better than her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 drew	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Tegumai	it				good property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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