Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey. Where is this story set?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Taffy, story · What happens: look back, live, be, set · To what, where: Merrow Down, story
This is test 14 · ★ 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: Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lived | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | Taffy | Taffy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tegumai | cc |
| 6 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Taffy | conj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Down | case |
| 9 | Merrow | Merrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Down | compound |
| 10 | Down | Down | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Surrey | case |
| 12 | Surrey | Surrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Taffy and Tegumai not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | live | past | Taffy and Tegumai | Merrow Down | in Surrey | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surrey=Location |
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: Where is this story set?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this story | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | this story not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Africa and the Sahara lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lands | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lands | det |
| 4 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lands | compound |
| 5 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Africa | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
England
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Malaysia and the nearby seas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malaysia | Malaysia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seas | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seas | det |
| 4 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seas | amod |
| 5 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Malaysia | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Surrey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surrey | Surrey | 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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