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title: Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day. What would that mean… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day. What would that mean, in the story? Test 4 · ★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

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Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day. What would that mean, in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Pau, that · **What happens:** threaten, go out, mean · **To what, where:** story

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:1
# text = Pau Amma threatens to go out seven times a day.
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	threatens	threaten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | present | Pau |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pau *not said here* |  |  |  | time | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would that mean, in the story?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:2
# text = What would that mean, in the story?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | would | that | the story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The sea would never be still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:o1:1
# text = The sea would never be still
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | would | the sea |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fish would all swim away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:o2:1
# text = The fish would all swim away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | would | the fish |  |  |  |  | all, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sea would dry up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t4:o4:1
# text = The sea would dry up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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

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