Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

What would happen if Jaguar had remembered his Mother's words exactly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jaguar, Mother · What happens: happen, remember, word · To what, where: remembered words

This is test 5 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 remembered	mark
5	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remembered	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remembered	aux
7	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 words	amod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Mother	nmod:poss
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 words	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Mother	case
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obj
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would		Jaguar's Mother's remembered words	exactly property	tree rules
2	remember a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Jaguar			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	word		Jaguar's Mother			nom word «communication transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He would have caught the Tortoise straight 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 caught	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 caught	aux
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tortoise	det
6	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · perfect · passive		He				away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary tortoise=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would know the curled-up ball was Hedgehog and the shell was Tortoise

The tree, 14 words

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 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
5	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ball	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 curled	punct
7	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	compound
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Hedgehog	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Hedgehog	cop
10	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 know	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Tortoise	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shell	det
13	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Tortoise	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Tortoise	cop
15	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Hedgehog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	would	He		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	curl	participle			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the curled up ball	Hedgehog and Tortoise	tree rules
4	is a	past	the shell	Tortoise	tree rules

Option 3

He would have known the Hedgehog was the one to avoid by sight

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 known	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hedgehog	det
6	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 known	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 avoid	mark
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 known	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 sight	case
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 avoid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	would · perfect · passive		He		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the Hedgehog	the one		tree rules
3	avoid	to-infinitive			by sight	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would have seen both friends clearly and eaten the Tortoise at once

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 seen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 friends	det
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	obj
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eaten	cc
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seen	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tortoise	det
11	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would · perfect	He	both friends				clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
2	eat	participle	He not said here	the Tortoise					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Patient

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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