Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

Looking back: in the Armadillo story, who was told how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Armadillo story · What happens: look back, tell, eat · To what, where: Armadillo story, hedgehogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl:relcl
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 eat	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tortoises	cc
17	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hedgehogs	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in the Armadillo story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the Armadillo story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Armadillo story not said here	hedgehogs and tortoises		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Armadillo, by his Mother, who told him all about the Thorn-Forest feast

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Armadillo	det
2	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mother	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Mother	nmod:poss
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Armadillo	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mother	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	all	all	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	17 feast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
14	Thorn	Thorn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Forest	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Thorn	punct
16	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 feast	compound
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Armadillo's Mother		Armadillo			about the Forest feast; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about feast=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Painted Jaguar, by his Mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Jaguar	amod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jaguar	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Mother	nmod:poss
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jaguar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Painted Jaguar, by his Father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Jaguar	amod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jaguar	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Father	nmod:poss
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jaguar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Painted Jaguar, by his Mother, who taught him to hunt them in the Thorn-Forest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Jaguar	amod
2	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taught	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jaguar	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Mother	nmod:poss
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jaguar	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taught	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 taught	nsubj
9	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taught	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hunt	mark
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 taught	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunt	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 Forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Forest	det
16	Thorn	Thorn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Forest	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Thorn	punct
18	Forest	Forest	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	past	Painted Jaguar by Jaguar's Mother		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hunt	to-infinitive	Painted Jaguar by Jaguar's Mother not said here	them = they		the Thorn Forest	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in forest=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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