--- title: Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey. Wher… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey. Where is this story set? 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Where is this story set? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taffy, story · **What happens:** look back, live, be, set · **To what, where:** Merrow Down, story This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:1 # text = Looking back: Taffy and Tegumai lived on Merrow Down in Surrey. 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Taffy Taffy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Tegumai Tegumai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 Merrow Merrow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Down Down PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Surrey Surrey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | Taffy and Tegumai *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **live** | past | Taffy and Tegumai | | | Merrow Down | | in Surrey | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surrey=Location | 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:* Where is this story set? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:2 # text = Where is this story set? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this story | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **set** | participle | | this story *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Africa and the Sahara lands ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:o1:1 # text = Africa and the Sahara lands 1 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Sahara Sahara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} England ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:o2:1 # text = England 1 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Malaysia and the nearby seas ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:o3:1 # text = Malaysia and the nearby seas 1 Malaysia Malaysia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Surrey ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t14:o4:1 # text = Surrey 1 Surrey Surrey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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