--- title: Looking back: how many letters did the Head Chief foretell? — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: how many letters did the Head Chief foretell? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 87 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/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 Alphabet Was…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp… Looking back: how many letters did the Head Chief foretell? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many letters · **What happens:** look back, foretell This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 87 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 1: a carp-fish's mouth, a tail, an egg and a snake» 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/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth:t12:1 # text = Looking back: how many letters did the Head Chief foretell? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 foretell foretell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | many letters *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **foretell** | past · do-support | many letters | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth:t12:o1:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twenty-four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth:t12:o2:1 # text = Twenty-four 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twenty-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth:t12:o3:1 # text = Twenty-six 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth:t12:o4:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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