Test 9 · ★★ · How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the al…

Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pair · What happens: grow

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 82 «How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet» of the history 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 scripts	case
4	scripts	script	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 grew	advmod
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 alphabet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 alphabet	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 alphabet	amod
10	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Phoenicians	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Phoenicians	det
13	Phoenicians	Phoenician	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 alphabet	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	which pair of scripts					from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians; both property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from alphabet=Patient

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

Chinese and Maya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Maya	cc
3	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Chinese	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Latin and Arabic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Arabic	cc
3	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Latin	conj

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

Option 3

Chinese and Japanese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Japanese	cc
3	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Chinese	conj

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

Option 4

Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hieroglyphs	amod
2	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cuneiform	cc
4	cuneiform	cuneiform	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hieroglyphs	conj

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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