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Test 6 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

In the Just So Story, Suleiman tries to show off by feeding all the animals in the world, and a single sea-creature eats it all. What is the lesson?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Suleiman, single sea creature, lesson · What happens: try, show off, feed, eat, be · To what, where: Just Story, animals, world

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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: In the Just So Story, Suleiman tries to show off by feeding all the animals in the world, and a single sea-creature eats it all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 Story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Story	det
3	Just	Just	PROPN	_	5 Story	compound
4	So	so	ADV	_	5 Story	advmod
5	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tries	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Story	punct
7	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tries	nsubj
8	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tries	xcomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 show	compound:prt
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 feeding	mark
13	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 show	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 animals	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 animals	det
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feeding	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animals	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eats	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eats	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 creature	det
23	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 creature	amod
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 creature	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sea	punct
26	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eats	nsubj
27	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tries	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eats	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 it	det
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present	Suleiman			the Just Story			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	Suleiman not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feed	gerund	Suleiman not said here	all animals		the world			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Value in world=Location
4	eat	present	a single sea creature	world					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 is the lesson?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lesson						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Sea animals are greedy and rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 greedy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greedy	cop
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rude	cc
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greedy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sea animals					greedy property	tree rules
2	be		Sea animals not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Showing off can turn into shame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 turn	csubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Showing	compound:prt
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 shame	case
6	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	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	turn	can	Showing			shame			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shame=Trajectory

Option 3

Big dinners are always a bad idea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dinners	amod
2	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 idea	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idea	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 idea	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Big dinners	a bad idea				always property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Kings should never feed animals at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 feed	advmod
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	should	Kings		animals	all			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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