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# Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

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Liam, little brother, shouting: «skibidi! the Rat ate the Moon!» (skibidi = a word kids shout for fun) What does the Rat really do in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Liam little brother, Rat, kids · **What happens:** shout, eat, do · **To what, where:** Moon, word, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Liam, little brother, shouting: «skibidi! the Rat ate the Moon!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:1
# text = Liam, little brother, shouting: «skibidi! the Rat ate the Moon!»
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	skibidi	skibidi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Liam little brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | the Rat | the Moon |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* (skibidi = a word kids shout for fun) What does the Rat really do in the story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:2
# text = (skibidi = a word kids shout for fun) What does the Rat really do in the story?
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	skibidi	skibidi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | kids | a word *not said here* |  |  |  | for fun | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · do-support |  |  |  | the story |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Bites the Fisherman's line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:o1:1
# text = Bites the Fisherman's line
1	Bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present |  | the Fisherman's line |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eats the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:o2:1
# text = Eats the Moon
1	Eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sleeps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:o3:1
# text = Sleeps
1	Sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Chews the Fisherman's hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t10:o4:1
# text = Chews the Fisherman's hook
1	Chews	chew	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | present |  | the Fisherman's hook |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient |

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