Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
Identify the creature which departed into the sea before receiving instruction as to its play.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature, instruction · What happens: identify, depart, receive, play · To what, where: creature, sea, instruction
This is exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 departed | nsubj |
| 5 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 creature | acl:relcl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 departed | obl |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 receiving | mark |
| 10 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 departed | advcl |
| 11 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receiving | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 play | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 play | nmod:poss |
| 15 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receiving | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the creature | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the creature | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | gerund | the creature not said here | instruction | as instruction's play | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | |||
| 4 | play | instruction | nom play «communication intransitive»: 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 Crab who ran off into the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crab | det |
| 2 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | the Crab | into the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pau Amma the Crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | flat |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crab | det |
| 4 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Magician's Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Magician | det |
| 2 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Magician | case |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | 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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