Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

Looking back: who in Kipling's book is called a «Tidy Pachyderm» who picked up melon rinds?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, call, pick up · To what, where: melon rinds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 called	csubj:pass
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 who	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Looking	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 book	case
6	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 book	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Kipling	case
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 who	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Pachyderm	det
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 Pachyderm	punct
13	Tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Pachyderm	amod
14	Pachyderm	Pachyderm	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 Pachyderm	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 picked	nsubj
17	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 picked	compound:prt
19	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rinds	compound
20	rinds	rind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 picked	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call speech: assert	present · passive	Looking		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
3	pick up	past		melon rinds	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rind=Topic

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

The Cat who Walked by Himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Walked	nsubj
4	Walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Cat	acl:relcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Himself	case
6	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 Walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the Cat					by Cat	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Elephant's Child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Crocodile of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Crocodile	nmod

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

Option 4

Rikki-tikki-tavi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tikki	punct
3	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rikki	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tavi	punct
5	tavi	tavi	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Rikki	dep

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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