Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Which is TRUE about this part of the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part of the story; true property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Hedgehog swims across the wide river alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 swims	nsubj
2	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swims	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 swims	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Hedgehog			the wide river		alone property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory

Option 2

Jaguar falls backward over his own tail three times, then runs off into the forest to find his mother

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backward	backward	ADV	_	2 falls	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 tail	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 falls	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 runs	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 runs	advmod
12	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 falls	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 runs	compound:prt
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 runs	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 runs	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Jaguar		Jaguar's own tail	time	backward property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over tail=Location
2	run off	present	Jaguar not said here			then	into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
3	find	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	Jaguar's mother				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic

Option 3

Tortoise curls up in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curls	nsubj
2	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 curls	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 curls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	present	Tortoise			the sun			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jaguar falls backward over his own tail three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backward	backward	ADV	_	2 falls	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 tail	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 falls	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Jaguar			Jaguar's own tail	time	backward property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over tail=Location

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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