Test 5 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Which is TRUE in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: part

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

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

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

Taffy reads a written message, does what it says without being told aloud, and then writes one back to Tegumai in the smoke

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 message	amod
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 does	punct
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	parataxis
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 says	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 does	conj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 writes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 writes	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 writes	advmod
18	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 back	nummod
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 writes	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Tegumai	case
22	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 back	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 smoke	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 smoke	det
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 writes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Taffy	a written message				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
2	write	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	message					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive					aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
6	write	present	Taffy not said here		the smoke	then		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in smoke=Destination

Option 2

Taffy reads a message aloud to Mummy at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 message	det
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 reads	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Mummy	case
7	Mummy	Mummy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Taffy	a message	Mummy		dawn	aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Topic to mummy=Recipient

Option 3

Taffy reads a written message and does what it says without being told aloud, which surprises everyone in the Cave

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 message	amod
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	aux
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 says	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 surprises	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 surprises	nsubj
17	surprises	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 surprises	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Cave	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Cave	det
21	Cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 surprises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	present	Taffy	a written message			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
2	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	message				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
5	surprise	present		everyone	the Cave		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Taffy reads a written message and does what it says without being told aloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 message	amod
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	aux
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 says	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 told	aux:pass
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	13 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	present	Taffy	a written message		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
2	write	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	message			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	gerund · passive			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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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