Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

«Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him!» Why are the friends worried by this rhyme?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: not curl, swim, be, worry · To what, where: him, friends

This is test 7 · ★ 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: «Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 curl	punct
2	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 curl	advmod
4	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 swim	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 swim	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swim	aux
8	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Solid	punct
10	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Solid	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Slow	punct
12	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 curl	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 him	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 him	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 him	cop
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Solid	advcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 curl	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 curl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	is a in a quote	present	that	him = he	tree rules

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 are the friends worried by this rhyme?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 friends	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	worried	worry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 friends	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 rhyme	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 rhyme	det
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worried	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the friends					tree rules
2	worry	participle		the friends not said here				by this rhyme	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It is so clear that even Jaguar will never forget it

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	4 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 forget	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 Jaguar	advmod
7	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 forget	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						clear property	tree rules
2	not forget	future	Jaguar	it					tree rules

Option 2

It is so clear that even Jaguar will never forget it, and it tells him exactly who to eat next

The tree, 20 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	4 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 forget	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 Jaguar	advmod
7	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 forget	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tells	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tells	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tells	nsubj
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tells	iobj
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	18 who	advmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 eat	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tells	ccomp
21	next	next	ADV	_	20 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present				clear property	tree rules
2	not forget	future	Jaguar	it			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	it		Jaguar		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive				next property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is so clear that even Jaguar will never forget it, so he can use it to find Tortoise

The tree, 19 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	4 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 forget	mark
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 Jaguar	advmod
7	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 forget	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forget	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 forget	advmod
10	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forget	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 use	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 use	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 use	aux
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clear	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 use	advcl
20	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			clear property	tree rules
2	not forget	future	Jaguar	it		tree rules
3	use	can	Jaguar	it		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	find	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	Tortoise		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Topic

Option 4

It is so rude that Jaguar will be angry

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	4 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 rude	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 angry	mark
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 angry	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 angry	cop
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rude	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	is	future	Jaguar					angry property	tree rules

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