Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…
is the holluschickie thing like a seal teen phase?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: holluschickie thing
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | holluschickie | holluschickie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | compound |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 phase | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 phase | det |
| 7 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teen | compound |
| 8 | teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phase | compound |
| 9 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the holluschickie thing | like a teen phase | 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
Yeah, young males stay on their own beach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 males | amod |
| 4 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beach | amod |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | young males | males's own beach | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |
Option 2
Yeah, the young bulls stay apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bulls | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bulls | amod |
| 5 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | the young bulls | apart property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it's when young males are kicked off the main beach and have to fight for space
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kicked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kicked | cop |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 kicked | advmod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 males | amod |
| 7 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kicked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kicked | aux:pass |
| 9 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beach | det |
| 12 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beach | amod |
| 13 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kicked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kicked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 space | case |
| 19 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fight | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | it | off the main beach; kick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | for space | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, young bachelor seals keep their own grounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seals | amod |
| 4 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seals | compound |
| 5 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grounds | amod |
| 9 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | young bachelor seals | seals's own grounds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Theme |
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