Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
Looking back: which earlier tale also explained how every animal of a kind got its look «from that day to this»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: look back, tale, explain, get · To what, where: look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | 8 explained | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tale | nsubj |
| 5 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 tale | amod |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 explained | advmod |
| 8 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 got | advmod |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 animal | det |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kind | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kind | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 animal | nmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 explained | ccomp |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 look | nmod:poss |
| 17 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 explained | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | tale | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | every animal of a kind | animal's look | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |
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 Camel got his hump forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Camel | det |
| 2 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hump | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Camel | Camel's hump | forever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros has folds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rhinoceros | det |
| 6 | rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Rhinoceros story | folds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient |
Option 3
The Elephant's Child got his long nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Elephant | det |
| 2 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Elephant | case |
| 4 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nose | amod |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Elephant's Child | Child's long nose | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus |
Option 4
The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros got folds in its skin from that day on
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 | 3 story | det |
| 2 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rhinoceros | det |
| 6 | rhinoceros | rhinoceros | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 story | acl:relcl |
| 8 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | every rhinoceros | folds | rhinoceros's skin | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fold=Stimulus |
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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