Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

Looking back: in the Crab story, which animal slipped away to play alone, like the Cat here?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Crab story · What happens: look back, slip away, play

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 story	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slipped	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 slipped	nsubj
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 story	acl:relcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 slipped	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slipped	xcomp
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 play	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Cat	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 Cat	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Cat	det
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	obl
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 play	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in the Crab story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
2	slip away	past	the Crab story		away property	tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive	the Crab story not said here	here	like the Cat; alone property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Cunning Monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Monkey	det
2	Cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Monkey	amod
3	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Sea Turtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

Pau Amma the Crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crab	det
4	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Elephant Child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Child	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Child	compound
3	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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