Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write · To what, where: Real life

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	10 written	nsubj:pass
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Greek	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Greek	amod
5	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 life	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Latin	cc
7	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Greek	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 written	aux:pass
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 written	advmod
10	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 written	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 written	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		Real life old Greek and Latin				often property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

In very large letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 letters	case
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 large	advmod
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 letters	amod
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

With no spaces between words, like Taffy's first messages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 spaces	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 spaces	det
3	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spaces	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 messages	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 messages	case
8	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 messages	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Taffy	case
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 messages	amod
11	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spaces	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

With no spaces between words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 spaces	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 spaces	det
3	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spaces	nmod

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

Option 4

Written in short lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lines	case
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lines	amod
4	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle				short lines			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in line=Destination

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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