Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night». How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man, sea, many times · What happens: say, come up · To what, where: river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 17 · ★ 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: ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Careful | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Careful | case |
| 4 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Man | det |
| 7 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Careful | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 comes | compound:prt |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 once | punct |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 comes | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 once | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 night | cc |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 night | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 once | conj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 once | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Careful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come up | present | the sea | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 night | cc |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | conj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 come | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | present · do-support | many times in one whole day and night | the river | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Often
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Often | often | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
None
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 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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