Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Looking back: which earlier animal also got a new shape by running and hopping all day, as these two did by practising all night?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: earlier animal, two · What happens: look back, get, run, hop, practise · To what, where: new shape

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 animal	det
5	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shape	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shape	amod
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 running	mark
13	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 got	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hopping	cc
15	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Looking	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hopping	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 practising	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 practising	mark
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 two	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 practising	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 practising	aux
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 practising	mark
24	practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Looking	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 night	det
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 practising	obl:unmarked
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	which earlier animal	a new shape		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus
3	run	gerund	which earlier animal not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hop	gerund			day	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	practise	past · do-support	this two		night	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.

The options

Option 1

Leopard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Crab, who scuttled into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crab	det
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 scuttled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scuttled	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 scuttled	nsubj
5	scuttled	scuttle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scuttled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scuttle	past	the Crab			the sea			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination

Option 3

Rhinoceros

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Old Man Kangaroo, chased by Yellow-Dog Dingo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Kangaroo	amod
2	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kangaroo	flat
3	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Kangaroo	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 Dingo	case
7	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dog	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Yellow	punct
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Dingo	compound
10	Dingo	Dingo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle		Old Man Kangaroo not said here				by Dog Dingo	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by dingo=Trajectory

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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