Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…
did Kotick get proper homesick at the end?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kotick · What happens: get · To what, where: proper homesick, end
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 616 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea» 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 | 3 get | aux |
| 2 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 homesick | amod |
| 5 | homesick | homesick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | Kotick | proper homesick | at the end | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent homesick=Theme at end=Asset |
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
Nah, he just liked the island more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 liked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 liked | advmod |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 liked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | he | the island | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot island=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he missed the beach and the fights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fights | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fights | det |
| 9 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | the beach | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beach=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, he missed the cold and the rocks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cold | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rocks | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rocks | det |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | the cold | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he missed the beach so much that he cried every night and swam back to it
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 missed | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 cried | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 missed | advcl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swam | cc |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 missed | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 swam | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swam | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | the beach | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beach=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | he | night | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swim back | past | he not said here | beach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
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