Test 6 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…
Real life: did one family make the alphabet in a day?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: make · To what, where: alphabet
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 family | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 family | aux |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 family | nummod |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 alphabet | det |
| 9 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Real life | the alphabet | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alphabet=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.
The options
Option 1
Yes, one family in a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 family | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 family | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 family | nummod |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 week | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 week | det |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, it took a thousand years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No: it grew over about 2,000 years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 grew | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 2,000 | advmod |
| 7 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | it | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
No, it grew slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 grew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | it | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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