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Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

Tortoise says: «if you want to see me swim away you've only got to drop me into the water.» Why is this clever?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tortoise, you, this · What happens: say, want, see, swim away, get, drop · To what, where: Tortoise, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Tortoise says: «if you want to see me swim away you've only got to drop me into the water.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 want	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	xcomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 swim	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
14	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 got	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
16	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 swim	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 drop	mark
18	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 got	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 drop	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drop	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tortoise						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Tortoise					tree rules
4	swim away in a quote	infinitive	Tortoise not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get in a quote	present · perfect	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	drop in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Tortoise		the water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into water=Destination

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: Why is this clever?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 clever	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 clever	nsubj
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is only a joke, because Tortoise cannot swim at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 joke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swim	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 swim	mark
8	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 swim	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 swim	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 swim	advmod
11	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 joke	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules
2	not swim	can	Tortoise			all			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

Jaguar wants to swim too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Jaguar						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It makes Jaguar angry at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	Jaguar		last		angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material jaguar=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is true, but Jaguar thinks it is a trick and does exactly that

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 thinks	cc
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trick	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trick	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 does	cc
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 that	advmod
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 does	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	Jaguar						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it	a trick					tree rules
4	do	present	that						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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