Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Looking back: what did Jaguar get in his paw the night before?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jaguar · What happens: look back, get · To what, where: paw

This is test 13 · ★ 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	_	7 get	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 get	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 paw	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 paw	nmod:poss
10	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past · do-support	Jaguar			Jaguar's paw	night	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

A splinter from a palm tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 splinter	det
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splinter	nmod

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

Option 2

A stinging nettle from the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nettle	det
2	stinging	stinging	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nettle	amod
3	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bank	compound
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nettle	nmod

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

Option 3

Leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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

Prickles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prickles	prickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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