Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
Liam, little brother, shouting: «skibidi! the Rat ate the Moon!» (skibidi = a word kids shout for fun) What does the Rat really do in the story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Liam little brother, Rat, kids · What happens: shout, eat, do · To what, where: Moon, word, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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
Sentence 1: Liam, little brother, shouting: «skibidi! the Rat ate the Moon!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Liam | punct |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouting | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouting | punct |
| 6 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 skibidi | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 skibidi | punct |
| 9 | skibidi | skibidi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouting | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouting | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rat | det |
| 12 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | nsubj |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shouting | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Moon | det |
| 15 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouting | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | Liam little brother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past | the Rat | the Moon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: (skibidi = a word kids shout for fun) What does the Rat really do in the story?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 skibidi | punct |
| 2 | skibidi | skibidi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 What | nsubj |
| 3 | = | = | SYM | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skibidi | appos |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shout | nsubj |
| 7 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fun | case |
| 9 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shout | obl |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rat | det |
| 14 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 does | nsubj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 What | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | kids | a word not said here | for fun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | present · do-support | the story | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bites the Fisherman's line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fisherman | det |
| 3 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 line | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Fisherman | case |
| 5 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bites | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | the Fisherman's line | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
Option 2
Eats the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Eats | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | the Moon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
Option 3
Sleeps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeps | sleep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Chews the Fisherman's hook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chews | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fisherman | det |
| 3 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hook | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Fisherman | case |
| 5 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chews | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | present | the Fisherman's hook | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient |
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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