--- title: Looking back: what is the river called, where Tegumai and Taffy fish? — Just So Stories, How the First Letter… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: what is the river called, where Tegumai and Taffy fish? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:… Looking back: what is the river called, where Tegumai and Taffy fish? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Looking · **What happens:** look back, be, call · **To what, where:** river · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 85 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2: the picture goes wrong and the whole Tribe comes» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t12:1 # text = Looking back: what is the river called, where Tegumai and Taffy fish? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | the river and Tegumai fish | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | Looking | the river and Tegumai fish | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | participle | | the river and Tegumai fish *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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nile ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t12:o1:1 # text = Nile 1 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Po ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t12:o2:1 # text = Po 1 Po po NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Amazon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t12:o3:1 # text = The Amazon 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The Wagai ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t12:o4:1 # text = The Wagai 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Wagai Wagai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 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. 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