--- title: Looking back: in the Crab story, which animal slipped away to play a… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: in the Crab story, which animal slipped away to play alone, like the Cat here? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/t12/) [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 Cat that Walked b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t… Looking back: in the Crab story, which animal slipped away to play alone, like the Cat here? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Crab story · **What happens:** look back, slip away, play This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t12:1 # text = Looking back: in the Crab story, which animal slipped away to play alone, like the Cat here? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 alone alone ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | in the Crab story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | | 2 | **slip away** | past | the Crab story | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | the Crab story *not said here* | | | here | | like the Cat; alone *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} The Cunning Monkey ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t12:o1:1 # text = The Cunning Monkey 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Sea Turtle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t12:o2:1 # text = The Sea Turtle 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Pau Amma the Crab ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t12:o3:1 # text = Pau Amma the Crab 1 Pau Pau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Amma Amma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Crab Crab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Elephant Child ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t12:o4:1 # text = The Elephant Child 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Elephant Elephant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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