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title: Looking back: what did Taffy draw to show the way through the swamp? — Just So Stories, How the First Letter… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: what did Taffy draw to show the way through the swamp? Test 14 · ★ 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 que
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# Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

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Looking back: what did Taffy draw to show the way through the swamp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taffy · **What happens:** look back, draw, show · **To what, where:** way, swamp

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t14:1
# text = Looking back: what did Taffy draw to show the way through the swamp?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **draw** | past · do-support | Taffy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | Taffy *not said here* | the way |  | the swamp |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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The swamp's dark water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t14:o1:1
# text = The swamp's dark water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The beavers' heads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t14:o2:1
# text = The beavers' heads
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t14:o3:1
# text = Reeds
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The beavers' heads, drawn in a row to show the route through the swamp

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t14:o4:1
# text = The beavers' heads, drawn in a row to show the route through the swamp
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  | the beavers's heads *not said here* |  | a row |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in row=Destination |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive |  | the route |  | the swamp |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent route=Recipient |

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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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