Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Real life: what did the Greeks add to the alphabet they borrowed from the Phoenicians?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Greeks · What happens: add, borrow · To what, where: Real life, alphabet, Phoenicians

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 add	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 add	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Greeks	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Greeks	det
7	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 add	nsubj
8	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 alphabet	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 alphabet	det
11	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 add	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 borrowed	nsubj
13	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 alphabet	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Phoenicians	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Phoenicians	det
16	Phoenicians	Phoenician	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 borrowed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	the Greeks	Real life				to the alphabet	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient to alphabet=Co-Patient
2	borrow	past	Greeks = greek	the alphabet not said here		the Phoenicians			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent alphabet=Theme from phoenician=Source

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

Letters for vowel sounds, such as a, e, i, o and u

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 i	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sounds	case
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	compound
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letters	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 i	punct
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 i	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 i	det
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 e	punct
10	e	e	INTJ	_	12 i	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 i	punct
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 o	punct
14	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 i	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 u	cc
16	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 o	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Letters for hard sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sounds	case
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounds	amod
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letters	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Letters for vowel sounds and for the numbers one to ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sounds	case
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	compound
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letters	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 numbers	cc
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 numbers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 numbers	det
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sounds	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 numbers	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 ten	case
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Letters for vowel sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sounds	case
3	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounds	compound
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Letters	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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