Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Looking back: which friend in part 1 said «you can scoop me out of my shell if you like», though he had no shell?

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

This is test 12 · ★ 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	9 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 part	case
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 friend	nmod
8	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 part	flat
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 scoop	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 scoop	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 scoop	aux
13	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 scoop	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 shell	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 shell	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shell	nmod:poss
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scoop	obl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 like	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
21	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scoop	advcl
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 scoop	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 shell	det
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund	which friend in part not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	which friend in part			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scoop in a quote	can	you	which friend in part = friend	my shell	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out shell=Trajectory
4	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	have	past	friend	no shell		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient

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

Stickly-Prickly Tortoise, who lived near the river and always wanted to swim

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tortoise	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stickly	punct
3	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tortoise	amod
4	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 wanted	advmod
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 swim	mark
15	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Stickly Prickly Tortoise	the river		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location
2	want	past	Stickly Prickly Tortoise not said here		always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	Stickly Prickly Tortoise not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Old Man Kangaroo

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

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

Option 3

Friendly Tortoise Shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Shell	amod
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Shell	compound
3	Shell	Shell	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Prickly	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stickly	punct
3	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hedgehog	amod
4	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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