--- title: Real life: what really makes the tides? — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: what really makes the tides? Test 6 · ★★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [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/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3… Real life: what really makes the tides? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real life · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** tides This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t6:1 # text = Real life: what really makes the tides? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Real life | the tides | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary tide=Product | 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 {#o1} Mostly the rivers and the rain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t6:o1:1 # text = Mostly the rivers and the rain 1 Mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Mainly the Moon's pull, and the Sun's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t6:o2:1 # text = Mainly the Moon's pull, and the Sun's 1 Mainly mainly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | | the Moon | | | | | 's the Sun | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent 's=obl | ### Option 3 {#o3} Mainly the Fisherman of the Moon's pull on the sea with his line ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t6:o3:1 # text = Mainly the Fisherman of the Moon's pull on the sea with his line 1 Mainly mainly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Fisherman Fisherman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | | the Moon | | | the sea | | | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place | ### Option 4 {#o4} Mostly the wind and the storms ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t6:o4:1 # text = Mostly the wind and the storms 1 Mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` 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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