--- title: Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how? — Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how? Test 9 · ★★ 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 o --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 3: «the A… Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** Real life This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t9:1 # text = Real life: old Greek and Latin were often written how? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past · passive | | Real life old Greek and Latin | | | | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 {#o1} In very large letters ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t9:o1:1 # text = In very large letters 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} With no spaces between words, like Taffy's first messages ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t9:o2:1 # text = With no spaces between words, like Taffy's first messages 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} With no spaces between words ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t9:o3:1 # text = With no spaces between words 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Written in short lines ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete:t9:o4:1 # text = Written in short lines 1 Written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | short lines | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in line=Destination | **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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