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title: ★★★ Careful: who in this part understands the picture exactly as Taf… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Careful: who in this part understands the picture exactly as Taffy meant it? Test 17 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 2:…

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★★★ Careful: who in this part understands the picture exactly as Taffy meant it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taffy · **What happens:** understand, mean · **To what, where:** picture, part

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This is test 17 · ★ 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/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t17:1
# text = ★★★ Careful: who in this part understands the picture exactly as Taffy meant it?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Taffy	Taffy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | present |  | the picture |  | this part |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | past | Taffy | picture |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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Nobody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t17:o1:1
# text = Nobody
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t17:o2:1
# text = Some
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tegumai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t17:o3:1
# text = Tegumai
1	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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Teshumai

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes:t17:o4:1
# text = Teshumai
1	Teshumai	Teshumai	PROPN	NNP	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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