Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

Real life: why are the stories called «Just So»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, call · To what, where: stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stories	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stories	advmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stories	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 life	conj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stories	acl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 So	punct
10	Just	just	ADV	_	11 So	advmod
11	So	so	ADV	_	8 called	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 So	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the stories					tree rules
2	call	participle		the stories not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

They were named after a famous old ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 named	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 named	aux:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	8 ship	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ship	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		They			after a famous old ship		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

They were short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 short	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 short	cop
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					short property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were told in a quiet room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		They		a quiet room			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They had to be told the same way each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 told	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive	They not said here	the same way			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: way=Recipient

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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