Test 4 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

What would happen if the Fisherman pulled the sea much too hard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fisherman · What happens: happen, pull · To what, where: sea

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 pulled	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fisherman	det
6	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	much	much	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pulled	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull a condition, not said to happen	past	the Fisherman	the sea					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=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 · ← Mova's choice

The sea would dry up completely

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	4 dry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dry	aux
4	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dry	compound:prt
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	would	the sea					completely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Huge tides, and trouble from the Magician, who would be very angry with him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tides	amod
2	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trouble	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trouble	cc
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tides	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Magician	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Magician	det
8	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 angry	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 angry	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 angry	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 angry	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 angry	advmod
14	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trouble	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	trouble from the Magician					with him = he; angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Huge tides, and trouble from the Magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tides	amod
2	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trouble	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trouble	cc
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tides	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Magician	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Magician	det
8	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	nmod

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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