Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

Looking back: in the Whale story, which spot in the sea is «Fifty North and Forty West»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whale story, Looking · What happens: look back, spot, be · To what, where: Fifty

This is test 12 · ★ 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	16 Fifty	csubj
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	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spot	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 spot	nsubj
10	spot	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spot	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Fifty	cop
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Fifty	punct
16	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
17	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 West	compound
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Forty	cc
19	Forty	Forty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 North	conj
20	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fifty	nmod:unmarked
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Fifty	punct
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 Fifty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in the Whale story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
2	spot	present	the Whale story		in the sea	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sea=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	Looking	Fifty	North West nmod:unmarked	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

Where the shipwrecked Mariner sat on his small raft, far from any land at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mariner	det
3	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Mariner	amod
4	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 raft	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 raft	nmod:poss
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raft	amod
9	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 land	punct
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 land	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 land	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shipwreck	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	the shipwrecked Mariner			Mariner's small raft		from any land at all	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on raft=Location

Option 2

Where the shipwrecked Mariner sat on his raft and the Whale came up beside him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mariner	det
3	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Mariner	amod
4	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 raft	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 raft	nmod:poss
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Whale	det
11	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shipwreck	participle				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	the shipwrecked Mariner	Mariner's raft		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on raft=Location
3	come up	past	the Whale		beside Mariner	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Location

Option 3

Where the Mariner's ship first sank down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 sank	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mariner	det
3	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ship	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Mariner	case
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 sank	advmod
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sank	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	the Mariner's ship					first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Where the shipwrecked Mariner sat on his raft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mariner	det
3	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Mariner	amod
4	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 raft	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 raft	nmod:poss
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shipwreck	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	the shipwrecked Mariner			Mariner's raft			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on raft=Location

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