Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…
Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Moon · What happens: look back, do, help · To what, where: Fisherman help
This is test 13 · ★★ 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 | 8 did | advcl |
| 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 | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 12 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 help | compound |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | 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 | do | past | the Moon's Fisherman help | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | help | the Moon | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
The Man who lived in the big house on the hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Man | the big house | on the hill | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Man in the canoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Man | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Sun in the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Crab and the Armadillo who were both rather proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crab | det |
| 2 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Armadillo | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Armadillo | det |
| 5 | Armadillo | Armadillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Crab | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 proud | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 proud | cop |
| 8 | both | both | ADV | _ | 10 proud | advmod |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 proud | advmod |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Crab and the Armadillo | both, proud property | tree rules |
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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