Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

What lesson did the Animal from the sea teach Suleiman?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: teach · To what, where: Suleiman, sea

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 teach	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Animal	det
5	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teach	obl
9	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 teach	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 teach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · do-support			Suleiman	the sea			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suleiman=Recipient

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

Eat slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here					slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Showing off is silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 silly	csubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Showing	compound:prt
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 silly	cop
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Showing					silly property	tree rules

Option 3

Fishes eat too much food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Fishes	much food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Never feed the animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 feed	advmod
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	imperative	you not said here		the animals				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

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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