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title: Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water? — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water? Test 8 · ★★ 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 questio
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A…

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Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** our · **What happens:** begin, letter · **To what, where:** Real life

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t8:1
# text = Real life: which of our letters may have begun as wavy water?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wavy	wavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | may · perfect |  | Real life |  |  |  | of our letters; as wavy water | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 2 | **letter** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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I

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t8:o1:1
# text = I
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	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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M

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t8:o2:1
# text = M
1	M	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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NW

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t8:o3:1
# text = NW
1	NW	nw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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MW

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t8:o4:1
# text = MW
1	MW	MW	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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