Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Real life: who gave armadillos their name?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life, armadillos · What happens: give, name · To what, where: armadillos

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 armadillos	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Real life	armadillos					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armadillo=Theme
2	name		armadillos = armadillo						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Spanish speakers: «little armoured one»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 speakers	amod
2	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 speakers	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
6	armoured	armoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speakers	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

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

Option 2

The Portuguese, long ago in Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Portuguese	det
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Portuguese	punct
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 Portuguese	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Brazil	case
7	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Portuguese	nmod

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

Option 3

English sailors, who sailed past Rio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sailors	amod
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sailed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sailed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sailed	nsubj
5	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 Rio	case
7	Rio	Rio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	English sailors			Rio			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past rio=Trajectory

Option 4

Spanish explorers, who named them after a little knight in their old armour stories

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 explorers	amod
2	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 named	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 named	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 named	nsubj
5	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 named	obj
7	after	after	ADP	_	10 knight	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 knight	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knight	amod
10	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 named	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 stories	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stories	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stories	amod
14	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stories	compound
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past		Spanish explorers			after a little knight in explorers's old armour stories		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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