Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Looking back: in part 1, which animal's flung sand became Borneo and Java?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, fling, become

This is test 13 · ★ 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	13 became	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sand	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sand	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 animal	case
11	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sand	amod
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	conj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Java	cc
16	Java	Java	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Borneo	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		in part and which animal's flung sand	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme
2	fling	participle			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	Looking		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

All-the-Crab-there-was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Crab	det
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Crab	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Crab	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 the	punct
5	Crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 Crab	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	all Crab						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All-the-Turtle-there-was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Turtle	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Turtle	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 the	punct
5	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Turtle	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 Turtle	expl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 All	cop

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

Option 3

The Turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Turtle	det
2	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Pau Amma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat

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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