Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…
Real life: what are the dark patches on the Moon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 patches | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 patches | amod |
| 8 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 what | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Moon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 patches | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real life | tree rules |
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 right answer
Plains of old cooled lava
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lava | case |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lava | amod |
| 4 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lava | amod |
| 5 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plains | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Plains of old cooled lava that flowed out from the Moon's ancient volcanoes long ago
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lava | case |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lava | amod |
| 4 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lava | amod |
| 5 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 flowed | nsubj |
| 7 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 flowed | compound:prt |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 volcanoes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 volcanoes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Moon | case |
| 13 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 volcanoes | amod |
| 14 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowed | obl |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ago | advmod |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 flowed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | flow out | past | Plains | the Moon's ancient volcanoes | of old cooled lava; ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Old volcanic ash clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clouds | amod |
| 2 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clouds | amod |
| 3 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clouds | compound |
| 4 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Seas of dry black rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rock | case |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rock | amod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rock | amod |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seas | nmod |
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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