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# Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

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Looking back: which earlier tale also explained how every animal of a kind got its look «from that day to this»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** look back, tale, explain, get · **To what, where:** look · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t13:1
# text = Looking back: which earlier tale also explained how every animal of a kind got its look «from that day to this»?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tale** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | past | every animal of a kind | animal's look |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |

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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 Camel got his hump forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t13:o1:1
# text = The Camel got his hump forever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Camel | Camel's hump |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |

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

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The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros has folds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t13:o2:1
# text = The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros has folds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Rhinoceros story | folds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Elephant's Child got his long nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t13:o3:1
# text = The Elephant's Child got his long nose
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Elephant's Child | Child's long nose |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros got folds in its skin from that day on

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t13:o4:1
# text = The Rhinoceros story: every rhinoceros got folds in its skin from that day on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	rhinoceros	rhinoceros	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | every rhinoceros | folds |  | rhinoceros's skin | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fold=Stimulus |

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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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