Test 10 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…
Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.» (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, crabs, you, Kipling · What happens: take, love, lot, say · To what, where: crabs, jars, yinz · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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: Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Pittsburgh | case |
| 3 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sam | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 yinz | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 yinz | punct |
| 6 | yinz | yinz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 jars | case |
| 12 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | should | Sam from Pittsburgh | crabs | jars | home property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crab=Value in jar=Location | ||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | crabs = crab | yinz | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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: (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 yinz | punct |
| 2 | yinz | yinz | PROPN | _ | root | root |
| 3 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 5 lot | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lot | nsubj |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yinz | conj |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 yinz | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 say | obj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 9 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 yinz | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 yinz | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lot | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | Kipling | yinz and lot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They love it
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 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 love | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | They | it | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
They enjoy the jar and sleep
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 enjoy | nsubj |
| 2 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jar | det |
| 4 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 enjoy | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sleep | cc |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jar | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present | They | the jar and sleep | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They hate it, and nip you
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 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hate | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nip | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nip | cc |
| 6 | nip | nip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hate | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 nip | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | They | it | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nip | you | tree rules |
Option 4
They like the jars and sleep
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jars | det |
| 4 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sleep | cc |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 like | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | They | the jars | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jar=Theme |
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