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title: Identify the creature which departed into the sea before receiving i… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the creature which departed into the sea before receiving instruction as to its play. Exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Exam question 1 · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

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Identify the creature which departed into the sea before receiving instruction as to its play.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, creature, instruction · **What happens:** identify, depart, receive, play · **To what, where:** creature, sea, instruction

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1: the Eldest Magician and the sea that will not behave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:e1:1
# text = Identify the creature which departed into the sea before receiving instruction as to its play.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the creature |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | past | the creature |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **receive** | gerund | the creature *not said here* | instruction |  |  |  | as instruction's play | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 4 | **play** |  | instruction |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Crab who ran off into the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:e1:o1:1
# text = The Crab who ran off into the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | the Crab |  |  |  |  | into the sea *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result |

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

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Pau Amma the Crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:e1:o2:1
# text = Pau Amma the Crab
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:e1:o3:1
# text = The Rat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Magician's Rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:e1:o4:1
# text = The Magician's Rat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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