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title: Real life: what nut did sailors once think grew under the sea? — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: what nut did sailors once think grew under the sea? Test 8 · ★ 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 each option; Mova
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# Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2…

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Real life: what nut did sailors once think grew under the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nut, sailors · **What happens:** do, think, grow · **To what, where:** sea

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t8:1
# text = Real life: what nut did sailors once think grew under the sea?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | nut |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | sailors |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sea=Location |

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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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The coco de mer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t8:o1:1
# text = The coco de mer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	coco	Coco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	mer	mer	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sea coconut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t8:o2:1
# text = The sea coconut
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sea nut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t8:o3:1
# text = The sea nut
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Coconut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell:t8:o4:1
# text = Coconut
1	Coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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