Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

★★★ Jaguar's own rhyme: «Can't curl, but can swim — Slow-Solid.» At this point in the story, which is true of the real Slow-Solid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jaguar, story · What happens: not curl, swim, rhyme, be

This is test 17 · ★ 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: ★★★ Jaguar's own rhyme: «Can't curl, but can swim — Slow-Solid.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	7 rhyme	case
4	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rhyme	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jaguar	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rhyme	amod
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 curl	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 curl	punct
10	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 curl	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 curl	advmod
12	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swim	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 swim	cc
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	aux
16	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 curl	conj
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 Solid	punct
18	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Solid	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Slow	punct
20	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 swim	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 curl	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 curl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not curl in a quote	can		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	swim in a quote	can		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rhyme		Jaguar	nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: At this point in the story, which is true of the real Slow-Solid?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 point	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 true	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	parataxis
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 Solid	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Solid	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Solid	nsubj
14	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Solid	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Slow	punct
16	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 true	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He can curl up tight

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 curl	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 curl	aux
3	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 curl	compound:prt
5	tight	tight	ADV	_	3 curl	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	can	He					tight property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is always shy and hides away

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	4 shy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 shy	advmod
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hides	cc
6	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 hides	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					always, shy property	tree rules
2	hide away	present	He not said here					away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He cannot curl but can swim, so the rhyme is right

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	4 curl	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 curl	advmod
4	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 swim	aux
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curl	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rhyme	det
11	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curl	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not curl	can	He		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	swim	can	He not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the rhyme	right property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He sinks like a stone in water

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	2 sinks	nsubj
2	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinks	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	He			water		like a stone	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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