Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

Looking back: in part 2, why couldn't soft Pau Amma leave Pusat Tasek?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, not leave · To what, where: Pusat

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	14 leave	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 part	case
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 part	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 leave	advmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 leave	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 leave	advmod
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Pau	amod
12	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 n't	vocative
13	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pau	flat
14	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Pusat	Pusat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
16	Tasek	Tasek	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Pusat	flat
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in part	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in part=Theme
2	not leave	could		Pusat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pusat=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

The sea was far too cold for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cold	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sea					for him = he; cold, far property	tree rules

Option 2

Sharks and dogfish would eat him, and the Magician would be cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dogfish	cc
3	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharks	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cross	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cross	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Magician	det
10	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cross	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cross	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cross	cop
13	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eat	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Sharks and dogfish	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	is	would	the Magician					cross property	tree rules

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

Sharks and dogfish would eat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dogfish	cc
3	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharks	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Sharks and dogfish	him = he					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

He was too soft, and the sharks and dogfish in the river would eat him very quickly

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soft	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 soft	advmod
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sharks	det
8	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eat	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dogfish	cc
10	dogfish	dogfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sharks	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sharks	nmod
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	aux
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 soft	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 quickly	advmod
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					soft property	tree rules
2	eat	would	the sharks in the river and dogfish	him = he				quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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