Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…
Looking back: in the Whale story, who gave the advice that got someone swallowed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whale story, advice · What happens: look back, give, get, swallow · To what, where: advice, someone
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 story | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 advice | det |
| 12 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 advice | acl:relcl |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 someone | acl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | in the Whale story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the Whale story | the advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the advice | someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The small 'Stute Fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fish | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fish | amod |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Stute | punct |
| 4 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fish | compound |
| 5 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Porpoise of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Porpoise | det |
| 2 | Porpoise | Porpoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Porpoise | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Whale himself, who swallowed the small 'Stute Fish into the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Whale | det |
| 2 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Whale | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swallowed | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 swallowed | nsubj |
| 6 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fish | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fish | amod |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stute | punct |
| 10 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fish | compound |
| 11 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swallowed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | the Whale Whale | the small Stute Fish | the sea | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
Option 4
The Sea Serpent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Serpent | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Serpent | compound |
| 3 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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