Test 6 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…
Real life: what really makes the tides?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: make · To what, where: tides
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 makes | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 makes | advmod |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tides | det |
| 8 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Real life | the tides | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary tide=Product |
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
Mostly the rivers and the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 rivers | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rivers | det |
| 3 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rain | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rain | det |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rivers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Mainly the Moon's pull, and the Sun's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 5 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sun | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Sun | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sun | case |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | the Moon | 's the Sun | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent 's=obl |
Option 3
Mainly the Fisherman of the Moon's pull on the sea with his line
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 3 Fisherman | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fisherman | det |
| 3 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pull | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Moon | case |
| 8 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fisherman | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 line | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 line | nmod:poss |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fisherman | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | the Moon | the sea | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
Option 4
Mostly the wind and the storms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 wind | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 storms | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storms | det |
| 6 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wind | conj |
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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