Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Real life: why do most crabs walk sideways?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: most crabs · What happens: walk

This is test 7 · ★ 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 walk	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 walk	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 crabs	amod
7	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walk	nsubj
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
9	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present · do-support	most crabs					sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

They like sand

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 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	They	sand					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sand=Theme

Option 2

Their shells slide sideways best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shells	nmod:poss
2	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slide	nsubj
3	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	3 slide	advmod
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 slide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	present	Their shells	best				sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their legs bend best that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bend	nsubj
3	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 bend	advmod
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Their legs	that way				well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Their bodies are built that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bodies	nmod:poss
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux:pass
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Their bodies					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary way=Product

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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