--- title: ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. If he lived ten ye… — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all? Test 16 · ★★ 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, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/t16/) [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/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3… ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** twelve, all This is test 16 · ★★ 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/#t16). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:1 # text = ★★★ Pau Amma's shell is soft one month in twelve. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 4 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 7 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | ★ | | | twelve | month | soft *property* | 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. *Sentence 2:* If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:2 # text = If he lived ten years, for how many months was he soft in all? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ★ | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | ★ | | | all | month | soft *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:o1:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:o2:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:o3:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t16:o4:1 # text = Nine 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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