Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…
did Limmershin the bird tell the truth or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Limmershin · What happens: tell · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 615 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere Khan's hide and leaves the wolves for good» 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 2 | Limmershin | Limmershin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Limmershin | appos |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 truth | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Limmershin | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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
Option 1
Yeah, he did.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he knows how to tell the truth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 knows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 tell | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he made up the whole story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | he | the whole story | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot |
Option 4
Yeah, he never lies, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 lies | advmod |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lie | present | he | mate vocative | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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