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Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

Ella from Boston: «wicked cool that a beaver made the Everglades.» (wicked = very) What is the real story?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beaver, wicked · What happens: make, be · To what, where: Everglades, real story

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Ella from Boston: «wicked cool that a beaver made the Everglades.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cool	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Boston	case
3	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ella	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cool	amod
7	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beaver	det
10	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cool	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Everglades	det
13	Everglades	Everglade	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 made	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	a beaver	the Everglades					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everglade=Product

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: (wicked = very) What is the real story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 very	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct
6	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 story	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	wicked	the real story					tree rules

The options

Option 1

A beaver's dam, long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beaver	det
2	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dam	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 beaver	case
4	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ago	punct
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ago	advmod
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 dam	advmod

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

Option 2

Beavers dammed the river and the grass grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dammed	nsubj
2	dammed	dam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dammed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dammed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dam	past	Beavers	the river					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent river=Destination
2	grow	past	the grass						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rain and water flowing south over flat land made the «river of grass»; no beavers live there

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	conj
4	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 water	acl
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 flowing	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowing	obl
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 river	punct
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 river	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 beavers	det
18	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 live	nsubj
19	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	gerund	water not said here			flat land		south property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location
2	make	past	Rain and water	the river of grass					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product
3	live	present	no beavers			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Beavers built dams that flooded the flat land and made a long marsh of grass there

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 built	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flooded	nsubj
5	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dams	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flooded	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 marsh	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marsh	amod
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 grass	case
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marsh	nmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Beavers	dams					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product
2	flood	past	dams	the flat land					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	make	past	Beavers not said here	a long marsh of grass		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset marsh=Product

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