Test 17 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

★★★ Careful: the Man first says the sea comes «once a day and once a night»; the Magician tells the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night». Which is closer to real tides?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man, sea, Magician · What happens: say, come, tell, pull, be · To what, where: Fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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: ★★★ Careful: the Man first says the sea comes «once a day and once a night»; the Magician tells the Fisherman to pull «twice a day and twice a night».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
7	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 says	advmod
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	ccomp
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 day	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 night	cc
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 night	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tells	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Magician	det
24	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tells	nsubj
25	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fisherman	det
27	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tells	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pull	mark
29	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tells	xcomp
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 day	punct
31	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 day	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pull	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 night	cc
35	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 night	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 night	det
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	conj
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 day	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Man			first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	present	the sea		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	the Magician	the Fisherman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient clause=Topic
4	pull not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Magician not said here		day		vn slide-11.2 «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.

Sentence 2: Which is closer to real tides?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 tides	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tides	amod
6	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to real tides; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Four high tides a day, twice in the day and twice at night, always at the same time

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tides	nummod
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tides	amod
3	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tides	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 day	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tides	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 night	cc
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 night	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 time	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tides	conj

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

Option 2

Once a day and once a night, as the Man said, and the Rat bites twice

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 said	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 night	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
11	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bites	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bites	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bites	nsubj
17	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 bites	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Man					once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bite	present	the Rat					twice property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Once a day and once a night, as the Man said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 said	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 night	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Man	det
11	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Man					once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Twice a day and night in all: about two high tides in 25 hours

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 day	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 night	cc
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 tides	punct
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 two	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tides	nummod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tides	amod
12	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hours	case
14	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tides	nmod

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

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