--- title: Looking back: which earlier animal could take off his skin and butto… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: which earlier animal could take off his skin and button it up again? Test 12 · ★ 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 --- [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/t12/) [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/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2… Looking back: which earlier animal could take off his skin and button it up again? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** earlier animal · **What happens:** look back, take off · **To what, where:** skin This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t12:1 # text = Looking back: which earlier animal could take off his skin and button it up again? 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 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det _ _ 5 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **take off** | could | which earlier animal | animal's skin and button | | | | | tree rules | 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} The Rhinoceros ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t12:o1:1 # text = The Rhinoceros 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rhinoceros Rhinoceros PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t12:o2:1 # 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 3 {#o3} The Great Grey Elephant of the Jungle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t12:o3:1 # text = The Great Grey Elephant of the Jungle 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Grey Grey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Jungle Jungle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Hippopotamus ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t12:o4:1 # text = The Hippopotamus 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hippopotamus Hippopotamus 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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