--- title: Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how… — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how many letters? Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 89 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/t13/) [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/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A… Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how many letters? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** look back, foretell · **To what, where:** Head Chief This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 89 «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the Alphabet, all complete», and how letters really began» 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/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t13:1 # text = Looking back: in the first Taffy story, the Head Chief foretold how many letters? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 7 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 foretold foretell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | in the first Taffy story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | | 2 | **foretell** | participle | | the Head Chief | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Twenty-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t13:o1:1 # 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 2 {#o2} Twenty-four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t13: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 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t13:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t13:o4:1 # text = Five 1 Five five 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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