Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…
Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: our · What happens: begin, letter · To what, where: Real life
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 | _ | 10 begun | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 begun | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 letters | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 letters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 begun | obl |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 begun | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begun | aux |
| 10 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 life | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | wavy | wavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begun | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | may · perfect | Real life | of our letters; as wavy water | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | letter | our | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
I
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
M
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
NW
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NW | nw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
MW
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MW | MW | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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