Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, Mowgli dances on Shere…

how old is Sea Catch, like, a real geezer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old Sea Catch

This is test 9 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Catch	amod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Catch	cop
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Catch	compound
5	Catch	Catch	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 Catch	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 geezer	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 geezer	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 geezer	amod
11	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Catch	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		old Sea Catch					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

twelve, a proper young lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lad	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lad	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lad	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lad	amod
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 twelve	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

eight, a proper young pup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pup	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pup	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pup	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pup	amod
6	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eight	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

old, dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 old	punct
3	dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	1 old	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fifteen, a proper old fighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fighter	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fighter	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fighter	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fighter	amod
6	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fifteen	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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