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title: Looking back: in the Armadillo story, Painted Jaguar got muddled by… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in the Armadillo story, Painted Jaguar got muddled by words; here the Tribe gets muddled by what? Test 13 · ★ 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 th
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# Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

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Looking back: in the Armadillo story, Painted Jaguar got muddled by words; here the Tribe gets muddled by what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** words · **What happens:** look back, muddle · **To what, where:** Painted, Tribe

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t13:1
# text = Looking back: in the Armadillo story, Painted Jaguar got muddled by words; here the Tribe gets muddled by what?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	Painted	Painted	PROPN	NNP	_	12	nsubj	_	_
10	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	muddled	muddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	muddled	muddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund | words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the Armadillo story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme |
| 2 | **muddle** | past · passive | words | Painted |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **muddle** | present · passive |  | the Tribe |  | here |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A picture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t13:o1:1
# text = A picture
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A picture drawn by a child of the Tribe on bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t13:o2:1
# text = A picture drawn by a child of the Tribe on bark
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  | a picture *not said here* |  | bark |  | by a child of the Tribe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bark=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t13:o3:1
# text = A song
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A drum beat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t13:o4:1
# text = A drum beat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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