Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

Real life: when do the biggest tides, spring tides, come?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: come

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tides	det
7	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tides	amod
8	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tides	punct
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tides	compound
11	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tides	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 life	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support							vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

When the tide is low and the wind is calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 low	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tide	det
3	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 low	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 low	cop
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 calm	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calm	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 calm	cop
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 low	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tide					low property	tree rules
2	is	present	the wind					calm property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At full moon and new moon, when Sun and Moon pull in a line

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 moon	case
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 moon	cc
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moon	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moon	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pull	advmod
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pull	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Moon	cc
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sun	conj
12	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 line	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 line	det
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	Sun and Moon					in a line; at full moon and new moon	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme

Option 3

Only in winter, when the Sun is far away from the Moon and the sea is calm and cold

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 winter	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 winter	case
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 away	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 away	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 away	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 away	cop
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	3 winter	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 Moon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 calm	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calm	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 calm	cop
18	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Moon	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cold	cc
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Sun	the Moon	away, far property	tree rules
2	is	present	the sea		calm property	tree rules
3	be		the sea not said here			tree rules

Option 4

At full moon only, when the Fisherman pulls the sea hard in the middle of the night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 moon	case
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 pulls	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulls	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pulls	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fisherman	det
8	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	nsubj
9	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	obj
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 pulls	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the Fisherman	the sea		full moon		in the middle of the night; hard property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sea=Theme at moon=Asset

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