Test 10 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

Looking back over the book: what did the Elephant's Child get from the Crocodile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Child · What happens: look back, get

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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	over	over	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 get	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Elephant	det
10	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Child	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Elephant	case
12	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Crocodile	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Crocodile	det
16	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						over the book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme
2	get	past · do-support	the Elephant's Child					from the Crocodile	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from crocodile=Source

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 · ← Mova's choice

A tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tail	det
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A big bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bath	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bath	amod
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 trunk	nmod:poss
2	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hay	hay	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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