Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…
Looking back over the book: who invented the first letter and, a week later, the alphabet with her Daddy?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look back, invent · To what, where: first letter
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 invented | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 invented | nsubj |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 letter | amod |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 alphabet | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 week | det |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 later | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 alphabet | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 later | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 alphabet | det |
| 19 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invented | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Daddy | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Daddy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 alphabet | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | over the book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme | |||||
| 2 | invent | past | the first letter | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Result |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Taffy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Elephant's Child's little sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Elephant | det |
| 2 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Elephant | case |
| 4 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Child | case |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ann
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The little girl from the Just So Stories book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Just | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Just | det |
| 6 | Just | Just | PROPN | _ | 3 girl | nmod |
| 7 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 book | advmod |
| 8 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 book | nsubj |
| 9 | book | book | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | book | present | the little girl from the Just | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/t11/