Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Why does the sea rise when the Magician puts his arm in and Pau Amma settles?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea, Magician, Pau · What happens: rise, put, settle · To what, where: arm

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 rise	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rise	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rise	nsubj
5	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 puts	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 puts	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Magician	det
8	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 puts	nsubj
9	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 puts	obj
12	in	in	ADV	_	9 puts	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 settles	cc
14	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 settles	nsubj
15	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Pau	flat
16	settles	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 puts	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rise	present · do-support	the sea		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	present	the Magician	Magician's arm	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
3	settle	present	Pau		vn correspond-36.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

The big body pulls the sea down into the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 pulls	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 sand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sand	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	the big body	the sea		the sand		down property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like a hand in a basin, the big body pushes water up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushes	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 basin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basin	det
6	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushes	nsubj
11	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pushes	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 pushes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	present	the big body	water				like a hand in a basin	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Like a hand in a basin, the big body of Pau Amma pushes all the water up over the land and the islands

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hand	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 basin	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basin	det
6	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 body	amod
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Pau	case
12	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 body	nmod
13	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pau	flat
14	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 water	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	14 pushes	compound:prt
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pushes	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 islands	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 islands	det
24	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 land	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	present	the big body of Pau	all water		the land and the islands		like a hand in a basin	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme over land=Trajectory

Option 4

Because the Magician is strong and the sea is deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 strong	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Magician	det
3	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 deep	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deep	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 deep	cop
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Magician					strong property	tree rules
2	is	present	the sea					deep property	tree rules

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