Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

Real life: what is the coconut crab famous for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: be · To what, where: coconut crab

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	8 crab	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 crab	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crab	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crab	det
7	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crab	compound
8	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 life	conj
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crab	amod
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 famous	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real life and the coconut crab	the coconut crab					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 trees	amod
2	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 palm	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 coconuts	cc
6	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coconuts	compound
7	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Living in deep holes in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 holes	case
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Living	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund				deep holes		in the sea	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location

Option 3

Living on land and climbing palm-trees to eat coconuts and fish at night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 land	case
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Living	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 climbing	cc
5	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Living	conj
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 palm	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbing	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 climbing	advcl
11	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fish	cc
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coconuts	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	gerund		land		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
2	climb	gerund	palm trees			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	coconuts and fish		night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts with its big strong claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 palm	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Climbing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cracking	cc
6	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Climbing	conj
7	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracking	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 claws	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 claws	nmod:poss
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 claws	amod
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 claws	amod
12	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund		palm trees					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	crack	gerund		coconuts				with its big strong claws	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient with claw=Instrument

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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