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title: Real life: what is the coconut crab famous for? — Just So Stories, The Crab that Played… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: what is the coconut crab famous for? Test 9 · ★★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 3…

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Real life: what is the coconut crab famous for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real life · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** coconut crab

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t9:1
# text = Real life: what is the coconut crab famous for?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	coconut	coconut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Real life and the coconut crab | the coconut crab |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t9:o1:1
# text = Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts
1	Climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
2	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	cracking	cracking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Living in deep holes in the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t9:o2:1
# text = Living in deep holes in the sea
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | deep holes |  | in the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Living on land and climbing palm-trees to eat coconuts and fish at night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t9:o3:1
# text = Living on land and climbing palm-trees to eat coconuts and fish at night
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | land |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
| 2 | **climb** | gerund |  | palm trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | coconuts and fish |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts with its big strong claws

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea:t9:o4:1
# text = Climbing palm-trees and cracking coconuts with its big strong claws
1	Climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | gerund |  | palm trees |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund |  | coconuts |  |  |  | with its big strong claws | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coconut=Patient with claw=Instrument |

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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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