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Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day. What would that mean, in the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pau, that · What happens: threaten, go out, mean · To what, where: story

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threatens	nsubj
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat
3	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threatens	xcomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl:unmarked
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threatens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	present	Pau						tree rules
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pau not said here				time	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: What would that mean, in the story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 story	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	that	the story					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sea would never be still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 be	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	would	the sea				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The fish would all swim away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	would	the fish					all, away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The sea would dry up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	aux
4	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	would	the sea						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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