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title: Real life: what are the dark patches on the Moon? — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: what are the dark patches on the Moon? Test 9 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 1…

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Real life: what are the dark patches on the Moon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real life · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t9:1
# text = Real life: what are the dark patches on the Moon?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Real life |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Plains of old cooled lava

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t9:o1:1
# text = Plains of old cooled lava
1	Plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Plains of old cooled lava that flowed out from the Moon's ancient volcanoes long ago

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t9:o2:1
# text = Plains of old cooled lava that flowed out from the Moon's ancient volcanoes long ago
1	Plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **flow out** | past | Plains |  |  | the Moon's ancient volcanoes |  | of old cooled lava; ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old volcanic ash clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t9:o3:1
# text = Old volcanic ash clouds
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clouds	cloud	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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Seas of dry black rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:90-justso-crab-1-the-eldest-magician:t9:o4:1
# text = Seas of dry black rock
1	Seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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