Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

Real life: what nut did sailors once think grew under the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nut, sailors · What happens: do, think, grow · To what, where: sea

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 life	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	obj
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	nsubj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 think	advmod
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	nut			tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	sailors		once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past		the sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location

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

The coco de mer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 de	det
2	coco	Coco	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 de	compound
3	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	mer	mer	PUNCT	_	3 de	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The sea coconut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coconut	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coconut	compound
3	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The sea nut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nut	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nut	compound
3	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Coconut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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