Test 4 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: T · What happens: happen, stay · To what, where: full family picture

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stayed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 T	det
6	T	T	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 picture	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 picture	amod
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picture	compound
11	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	the T	a full family picture					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme picture=Location

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

Writing would be slow and tiring, and the Tribe would give up on it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tiring	cc
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tribe	det
10	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 give	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	Writing		slow property	tree rules
2	be		Writing not said here			tree rules
3	give up	would	the Tribe	Writing		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Writing would be slow and tiring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tiring	cc
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Writing					slow property	tree rules
2	be		Writing not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Drawing would be easy and clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 easy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	cop
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 clean	cc
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	easy property	tree rules
3	be			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Writing would be slow and tiring, so Tegumai would draw the whole family every time he wrote

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tiring	cc
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 draw	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 draw	advmod
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 draw	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 draw	aux
11	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 family	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 family	amod
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obj
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wrote	nsubj
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Writing			slow property	tree rules
2	be		Writing not said here				tree rules
3	draw	would	Tegumai	the whole family	time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme
4	write	past	Tegumai	every time not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme

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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