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title: Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.» (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

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Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.» (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sam, crabs, you, Kipling · **What happens:** take, love, lot, say · **To what, where:** crabs, jars, yinz · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 92 «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3: the Moon pulls the sea, and how tides really work» 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/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:1
# text = Sam from Pittsburgh: «yinz should take crabs home in jars, they love it.»
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yinz	yinz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | should | Sam from Pittsburgh | crabs |  | jars |  | home *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crab=Value in jar=Location |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | crabs *= crab* | yinz |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:* (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:2
# text = (yinz = you lot) What does Kipling say?
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	yinz	yinz	PROPN	ADD	_	0	root	_	_
3	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
7	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lot** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Kipling | yinz and lot |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They love it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:o1:1
# text = They love it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They enjoy the jar and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:o2:1
# text = They enjoy the jar and sleep
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present | They | the jar and sleep |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They hate it, and nip you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:o3:1
# text = They hate it, and nip you
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	nip	nip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **nip** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They like the jars and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t10:o4:1
# text = They like the jars and sleep
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | They | the jars |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jar=Theme |

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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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