Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…
Looking back: in the Cat story, the Woman said «I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful». Who in this part is both wise and beautiful?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Woman · What happens: look back, say, know, be, not know · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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
Sentence 1: Looking back: in the Cat story, the Woman said «I knew I was wise, but I did not know I was beautiful».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 story | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | parataxis |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wise | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wise | cop |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 know | ccomp |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | the Woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | the Woman = woman | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the Woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | the Woman = woman | beautiful 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.
Sentence 2: Who in this part is both wise and beautiful?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 part | det |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Who | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wise | cop |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 wise | cc:preconj |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wise | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Balkis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Pau
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ava
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Suleiman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suleiman | Suleiman | 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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