Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…
Looking back: which earlier animal could take off his skin and button it up again?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: earlier animal · What happens: look back, take off · To what, where: skin
This is test 12 · ★ 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 take | punct |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 animal | det |
| 5 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Looking | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 button | cc |
| 13 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take off | could | which earlier animal | animal's skin and button | 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
The Rhinoceros
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rhinoceros | det |
| 2 | Rhinoceros | Rhinoceros | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
The Great Grey Elephant of the Jungle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Elephant | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Elephant | amod |
| 3 | Grey | Grey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Elephant | compound |
| 4 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Jungle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Jungle | det |
| 7 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Elephant | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Hippopotamus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hippopotamus | det |
| 2 | Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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