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title: What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture? — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture? Test 4 · ★★ 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 pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

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What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** T · **What happens:** happen, stay · **To what, where:** full family picture

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t4:1
# text = What would happen if the T stayed a full family picture?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the T | a full family picture |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme picture=Location |

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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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Writing would be slow and tiring, and the Tribe would give up on it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t4:o1:1
# text = Writing would be slow and tiring, and the Tribe would give up on it
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tribe	Tribe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Writing |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Writing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** | would | the Tribe |  |  | Writing |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Writing would be slow and tiring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t4:o2:1
# text = Writing would be slow and tiring
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Writing |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Writing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drawing would be easy and clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t4:o3:1
# text = Drawing would be easy and clean
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Writing would be slow and tiring, so Tegumai would draw the whole family every time he wrote

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t4:o4:1
# text = Writing would be slow and tiring, so Tegumai would draw the whole family every time he wrote
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tiring	tiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Writing |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Writing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | would | Tegumai | the whole family |  |  | time |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
| 4 | **write** | past | Tegumai | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |

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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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