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Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

Looking back: the Elephant's Child asked many questions. Who sent him to the Limpopo to find out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Child · What happens: look back, ask, send, find out · To what, where: many questions, Child, Limpopo

This is test 13 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: the Elephant's Child asked many questions.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Elephant	det
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Child	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Elephant	case
7	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 questions	amod
10	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Elephant's Child not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Elephant's Child	many questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: Who sent him to the Limpopo to find out?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Limpopo	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Limpopo	det
6	Limpopo	limpopo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 find	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		Child		the Limpopo			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to limpopo=Destination
2	find out	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

His Great-Grandfather, the Crocodile, who sent him from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Grandfather	nmod:poss
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Grandfather	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Great	punct
4	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Crocodile	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crocodile	det
7	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Grandfather	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sent	nsubj
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sent	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	His Great Grandfather	Crocodile		the sea			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from sea=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Kolokolo Bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kolokolo	flat

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

Option 3

The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, who lived near the river

The tree, 11 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Snake	det
2	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Snake	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Bi	punct
4	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Snake	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Python	punct
6	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Rock	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Python	punct
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Snake	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Rock	punct
10	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Bi Coloured Rock Snake			the river			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ethiopian bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethiopian	ethiopian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bird	amod
2	bird	bird	NOUN	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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