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

Why does the Magician refuse a shell for all twelve months?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Magician · What happens: refuse · To what, where: shell

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 refuse	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Magician	det
4	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	nsubj
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shell	det
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 months	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 months	det
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 months	nummod
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 refuse	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 refuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present · do-support	the Magician	a shell			month		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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

He fears Pau Amma will grow bold and greedy again, and the sea will be upset

The tree, 16 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	2 fears	nsubj
2	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
4	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pau	flat
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fears	ccomp
7	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 greedy	cc
9	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bold	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 greedy	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 upset	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 upset	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 upset	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 upset	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 upset	cop
17	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fears	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fear	present	He		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	future	Pau	bold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	future	the sea	upset property	tree rules

Option 2

Because the shell is too heavy to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 heavy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shell	det
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shell					heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	the shell not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

He fears Pau Amma will grow bold and greedy again

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	2 fears	nsubj
2	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
4	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pau	flat
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fears	ccomp
7	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 greedy	cc
9	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bold	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	He						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	future	Pau				again	bold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He fears Pau Amma will grow bold and greedy again, and make the Man's children lazy

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	2 fears	nsubj
2	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
4	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pau	flat
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fears	ccomp
7	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 greedy	cc
9	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bold	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 greedy	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fears	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Man	det
15	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 children	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Man	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
18	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	present	He			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	future	Pau		bold property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	infinitive	He not said here	the Man's children	lazy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product

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