Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who helped pull against the Crocodile?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Child · What happens: look back, help, pull

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 91 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Child	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 Child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elephant	det
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Child	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Elephant	case
8	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 helped	nsubj
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Child	acl:relcl
12	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helped	xcomp
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 Crocodile	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Crocodile	det
15	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		in the Elephant's Child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in child=Theme
2	help	past	the Elephant's Child		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pull	infinitive	the Elephant's Child not said here	against the Crocodile	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against crocodile=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.

The options

Option 1

The Wise Old Hippopotamus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hippopotamus	det
2	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hippopotamus	amod
3	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hippopotamus	amod
4	Hippopotamus	Hippopotamus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Greedy Ostrich-Sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sparrow	det
2	Greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Sparrow	amod
3	Ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sparrow	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Ostrich	punct
5	Sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Snake	det
2	Bi	bi	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Snake	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Bi	punct
4	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Snake	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Python	punct
6	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Rock	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Python	punct
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Snake	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Rock	punct
10	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Great Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake who lay in the mud by the river

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bi	det
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bi	amod
3	Bi	Bi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Snake	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Coloured	punct
5	Coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Python	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Coloured	punct
7	Python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Snake	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rock	punct
9	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Snake	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Rock	punct
11	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Snake	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 mud	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mud	det
16	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Python Rock Snake			the mud		by the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location

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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