Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

Real life: what does «a just-so story» mean to scientists today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: do, mean · To what, where: story

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mean	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	advcl
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 story	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 just	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 story	advmod
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 story	punct
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 scientists	case
15	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mean	obl
16	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mean	obl:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a story					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality
2	mean	infinitive	Real life				today	to scientists	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to scientist=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

A neat explanation nobody has tested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 explanation	det
2	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 explanation	amod
3	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 tested	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tested	aux
6	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 explanation	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present · perfect	nobody	a neat explanation not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme

Option 2

A scientific rule that has been tested again and again by many people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rule	det
2	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rule	amod
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tested	obj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tested	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 tested	aux:pass
7	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rule	acl:relcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 tested	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 again	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	present · perfect · passive	many people	a scientific rule			again		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

Option 3

A very old story about the sun and moon that everyone believes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 moon	cc
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 believes	mark
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 believes	nsubj
12	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	everyone						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

An explanation that scientists have proved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 explanation	det
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 proved	nsubj:pass
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 proved	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proved	aux
6	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 explanation	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · perfect · passive		a explanation					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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