Test 2 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

Why does Hedgehog say «you can scoop me out of my shell»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hedgehog, you · What happens: say, scoop · To what, where: Hedgehog, shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 scoop	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 scoop	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scoop	aux
8	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 scoop	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 shell	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 shell	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shell	nmod:poss
13	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoop	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 scoop	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	Hedgehog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scoop in a quote	can	you	Hedgehog		my shell			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory

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

So Jaguar will think he is the Tortoise and try to eat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Tortoise	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Tortoise	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tortoise	det
8	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 try	cc
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	future	Jaguar		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Jaguar	the Tortoise	tree rules
3	try	infinitive	Jaguar not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	Jaguar	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

So Jaguar will be frightened of his prickles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 prickles	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prickles	nmod:poss
8	prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	future · passive		Jaguar				of Jaguar's prickles	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3

To trick Jaguar into thinking he is slow and getting eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 thinking	mark
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 trick	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slow	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 slow	cop
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 getting	cc
10	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thinking	conj
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		Jaguar		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaguar=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Jaguar		slow property	tree rules
4	get	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	eat	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So Jaguar will think he is the Tortoise and grab the wrong animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Tortoise	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Tortoise	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tortoise	det
8	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grab	cc
10	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 animal	det
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	future	Jaguar		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Jaguar	the Tortoise	tree rules
3	grab	infinitive	Jaguar not said here	the wrong animal	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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