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Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

★★★ The Cow's «bare patch» and «the place where she had sat down» became two deserts. Which went with which, in the story's order?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, story · What happens: sit down, become, go, order · To what, where: two deserts, order

This is test 16 · ★ 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: ★★★ The Cow's «bare patch» and «the place where she had sat down» became two deserts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 became	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	9 patch	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cow	det
5	Cow	Cow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 patch	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Cow	case
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 patch	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 patch	amod
9	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 patch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 patch	conj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 sat	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	aux
18	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 place	acl:relcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 deserts	nummod
23	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 became	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	past · perfect	★						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	★ ★ the Cow's bare patch and the place	two deserts					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Which went with which, in the story's order?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 order	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 order	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 story	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				the story's order			vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with which=Beneficiary
2	order		the story						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Eaten patch: Indian Desert; sitting-place: Sahara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 patch	amod
2	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Desert	punct
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Desert	amod
5	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 patch	appos
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 place	punct
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 place	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patch	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Sahara	punct
11	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 place	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sahara only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Sahara	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Eaten patch: Indian Desert, then the Sahara, then Himalayas; sitting-place: Gobi

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 patch	amod
2	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Desert	punct
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Desert	amod
5	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 patch	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Sahara	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 Sahara	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sahara	det
9	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Desert	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Himalayas	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Himalayas	advmod
12	Himalayas	Himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Desert	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 place	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sitting	punct
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 patch	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Gobi	punct
18	Gobi	Gobi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 place	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Two deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 deserts	nummod
2	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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