Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…
Looking back: in «How the Leopard Got His Spots», how did the Leopard get his spots?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leopard · What happens: look back, get · To what, where: Spots
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Got | punct |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 Got | mark |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 Got | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 Got | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Leopard | det |
| 8 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Got | nsubj |
| 9 | Got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | conj |
| 10 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Spots | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Got | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 Got | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Leopard | det |
| 17 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Looking | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spots | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | the Leopard | Leopard's Spots | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | past · do-support | the Leopard | Leopard's spots | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |
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
Option 1
Five fingers of a friendly man pressed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fingers | nummod |
| 2 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fingers | nmod |
| 7 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fingers | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | Five fingers of a friendly man not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
He was spotted by a jealous bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spotted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spotted | aux:pass |
| 3 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spotted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | past · passive | a jealous bird | He | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
Option 3
The Ethiopian painted him all over, then a man pressed five fingertips on him in the sun
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ethiopian | det |
| 2 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 painted | obj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 over | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 painted | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pressed | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 pressed | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressed | nsubj |
| 11 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 painted | conj |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fingertips | nummod |
| 13 | fingertips | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pressed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pressed | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | the Ethiopian | him = he | over property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | press | participle | a man | five fingertips | the sun | then | on Ethiopian | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A man pressed five fingertips on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fingertips | nummod |
| 5 | fingertips | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pressed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | participle | a man | five fingertips | on him = he | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Theme |
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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