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title: Which is TRUE about this part of the story? — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is TRUE about this part of the story? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1:…

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Which is TRUE about this part of the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 82 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 1: Painted Jaguar and the muddled advice» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar:t6:1
# text = Which is TRUE about this part of the story?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about this part of the story; true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Hedgehog is eaten by Jaguar at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar:t6:o1:1
# text = The Hedgehog is eaten by Jaguar at last
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · passive | Jaguar | the Hedgehog |  | last |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Jaguar never manages to eat either friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar:t6:o2:1
# text = Jaguar never manages to eat either friend
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	manages	manage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **manage** | present | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | Jaguar *not said here* | either friend |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Jaguar never manages to eat either friend, because the Hedgehog and Tortoise both escape him in the end

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar:t6:o3:1
# text = Jaguar never manages to eat either friend, because the Hedgehog and Tortoise both escape him in the end
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	manages	manage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	both	both	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **manage** | present | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | Jaguar *not said here* | either friend |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 3 | **escape** | present | the Hedgehog and Tortoise | friend |  |  | in the end | both *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jaguar gets the Tortoise at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar:t6:o4:1
# text = Jaguar gets the Tortoise at last
1	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Jaguar | the Tortoise |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme at last=Asset |

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**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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