--- title: Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who helped pull against the C… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who helped pull against the Crocodile? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 91 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/t10/) [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/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2… Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who helped pull against the Crocodile? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** look back, help, pull This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 91 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» 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/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t10:1 # text = Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who helped pull against the Crocodile? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 13 against against ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Crocodile Crocodile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | in the Elephant's Child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in child=Theme | | 2 | **help** | past | the Elephant's Child | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **pull** | infinitive | the Elephant's Child *not said here* | | | | | against the Crocodile | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against crocodile=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The Wise Old Hippopotamus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t10:o1:1 # text = The Wise Old Hippopotamus 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Hippopotamus Hippopotamus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Greedy Ostrich-Sparrow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t10:o2:1 # text = The Greedy Ostrich-Sparrow 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 Ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t10:o3:1 # text = The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 2 Bi bi ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Great Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake who lay in the mud by the river ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t10:o4:1 # text = The Great Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake who lay in the mud by the river 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Bi Bi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | Python Rock Snake | | | the mud | | by the river | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location | **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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