Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Real life: how do real crabs grow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real crabs · What happens: grow

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grow	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crabs	amod
7	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support	real crabs						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They moult and stay soft for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moult	nsubj
2	moult	moult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stay	cc
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 moult	conj
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 while	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moult	present	They						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	present	They not said here				while	soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They shed their shell and stay soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shed	nsubj
2	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shell	nmod:poss
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shed	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 shed	conj
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	They	their shell					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Source
2	stay	infinitive	They not said here					soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They shed their legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shed	nsubj
2	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past	They	their legs					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Source

Option 4

They grow by eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	They						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	They not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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