Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…
★★★ «Once a day and once a night I go out... Once a day and once a night I return.» How many times does the sea rise and fall in a day and a night, by this?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, sea · What happens: go out, return, rise, fall
This is test 15 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «Once a day and once a night I go out...
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 5 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 go | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 night | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 night | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 ★ | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 1 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out in a quote | present | I | day | once, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Once a day and once a night I return.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 return | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 once | cc |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Once | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | I | night | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many times does the sea rise and fall in a day and a night, by this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rise | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rise | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rise | nsubj |
| 7 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fall | cc |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rise | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 night | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 this | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fall | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 rise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present · do-support | the sea | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | the sea not said here | day | by this | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by this=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It goes out twice and comes in twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 goes | compound:prt |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 goes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 comes | cc |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 comes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | It | twice property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in | present | twice property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
It goes out once and comes in once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 goes | compound:prt |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 goes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 comes | cc |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 comes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | It | once property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in | present | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
It goes out four times and comes in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 goes | compound:prt |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comes | cc |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 comes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | It | time | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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