Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

★★★ Careful: when the friends say «Can't curl, but can swim — Stickly-Prickly, that's him!», why is this a trick on Jaguar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends, that · What happens: say, not curl, swim, be · To what, where: ★, trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 say	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 friends	det
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	conj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 curl	punct
11	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 curl	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 curl	advmod
13	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swim	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 swim	cc
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swim	aux
17	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 curl	conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 Prickly	punct
19	Stickly	stickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Prickly	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Stickly	punct
21	Prickly	prickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 curl	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 him	punct
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 him	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 him	cop
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 curl	parataxis
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 curl	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 curl	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trick	punct
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 trick	advmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 trick	cop
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 trick	det
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 trick	det
33	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 Jaguar	case
35	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 trick	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	the friends			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not curl in a quote	can				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	swim in a quote	can				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	that	★		tree rules
5	is a	present		this trick	on Jaguar	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

Because the rhyme is only sung and never written, so he cannot check it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 sung	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rhyme	det
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sung	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux:pass
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 sung	advmod
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 check	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 written	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 written	advmod
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sung	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sung	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 check	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 check	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 check	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 check	advmod
15	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · passive		the rhyme	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not write	participle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not check	can	he	rhyme	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because Jaguar cannot read the rhyme properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 read	mark
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rhyme	det
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	can	Jaguar	the rhyme				properly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Now BOTH can curl and BOTH can swim, so the rhyme no longer tells them apart

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 curl	advmod
2	BOTH	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 curl	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	aux
4	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swim	cc
6	BOTH	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 swim	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swim	aux
8	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 curl	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tells	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 tells	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rhyme	det
12	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tells	nsubj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 tells	advmod
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curl	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tells	iobj
17	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 tells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	curl	can	BOTH		now		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	swim	can	BOTH				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	the rhyme	them = they		apart, long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

Because it is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 rude	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rude	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					rude property	tree rules

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