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Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

Looking back: Pau Amma the Crab also refused to be obedient at the start. What did he say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pau · What happens: look back, refuse, not be, say · To what, where: Pau, start · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: Pau Amma the Crab also refused to be obedient at the start.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 refused	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Pau	punct
4	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
5	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pau	flat
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crab	det
7	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pau	appos
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 refused	advmod
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 obedient	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 obedient	cop
12	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 refused	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 start	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 start	det
15	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obedient	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 refused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund		Pau					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	refuse	past							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not is	to-infinitive				the start		obedient property	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.

Sentence 2: What did he say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Pau						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would never obey the son of Adam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obey	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 obey	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 obey	advmod
4	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obey	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Adam	case
8	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not obey	would	He	the son of Adam					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

Option 2

He would never serve the Woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 serve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 serve	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 serve	advmod
4	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woman	det
6	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not serve	would	He	the Woman					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Attribute

Option 3

I will not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 will	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 will	advmod

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

Option 4

He would obey the son of Adam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obey	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 obey	aux
3	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obey	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Adam	case
7	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	would	He	the son of Adam					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

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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