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

«The easier we make our sound-pictures the better.» Why is Tegumai right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Tegumai · What happens: make, be · To what, where: sound pictures

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «The easier we make our sound-pictures the better.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 easier	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 easier	det
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	ccomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pictures	nmod:poss
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pictures	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
9	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 better	det
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easier	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 easier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	we	our sound pictures				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Product

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.

Sentence 2: Why is Tegumai right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 right	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tegumai					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Simple signs are quick to write and hard to mix up when the Tribe reads them at night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signs	amod
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quick	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hard	cc
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quick	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mix	mark
10	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 mix	compound:prt
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 reads	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tribe	det
14	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 reads	nsubj
15	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mix	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reads	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Simple signs			quick property	tree rules
2	write	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		Simple signs not said here				tree rules
4	mix up	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	read	present	the Tribe	signs = sign	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2

Simple signs are slow to draw but clear to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signs	amod
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 clear	cc
8	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 draw	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 read	mark
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 clear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Simple signs	slow property	tree rules
2	draw	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clear	infinitive	Simple signs not said here		tree rules
4	read	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hard signs are quick to draw and easy to mix up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signs	amod
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quick	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 easy	cc
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quick	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mix	mark
10	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easy	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 mix	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hard signs	quick property	tree rules
2	draw	to-infinitive	Hard signs not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		Hard signs not said here		tree rules
4	mix up	to-infinitive	Hard signs not said here		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Simple signs are quick to write and hard to mix up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signs	amod
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quick	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quick	cop
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quick	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hard	cc
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quick	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mix	mark
10	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hard	xcomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 mix	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Simple signs	quick property	tree rules
2	write	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		Simple signs not said here		tree rules
4	mix up	to-infinitive	Simple signs not said here		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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