--- title: ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a ni… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night». How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river? Test 17 · ★ 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 cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/t17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Crab that Played…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician/) / t17 # Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1… ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night». How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Man, sea, many times · **What happens:** say, come up · **To what, where:** river · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 17 · ★ 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/#t17). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night». ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:1 # text = ★★★ Careful: the Man says the sea comes up «once a day and once a night». 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come up** | present | the sea | | | | | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:* How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:2 # text = How many times in one whole day and night does it come up the river? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | present · do-support | many times in one whole day and night | the river | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Once ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:o1:1 # text = Once 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Twice ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:o2:1 # text = Twice 1 Twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Often ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:o3:1 # text = Often 1 Often often ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} None ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t17:o4:1 # text = None 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 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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