Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

lol, why didn't the seals just chill at Otter Island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seals · What happens: not chill · To what, where: Otter Island

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 chill	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seals	det
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chill	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 chill	advmod
9	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Island	case
11	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Island	compound
12	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chill	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chill	present	the seals			Otter Island			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Cuz if you go there everyone thinks you're a bachelor, so nobody wants to risk it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	nsubj
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cuz	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 bachelor	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bachelor	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bachelor	det
11	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 wants	advmod
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 wants	nsubj
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinks	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 risk	mark
17	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wants	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 risk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	you		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	Cuz			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	you	a bachelor		tree rules
4	want	present	nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	risk not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	bachelor		vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz only the holluschickie go there, dude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 holluschickie	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 holluschickie	det
4	holluschickie	holluschickie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cuz	parataxis
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive				there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cuz the seals would look proper scared if they went there, and everyone would talk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seals	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seals	det
3	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talk	cc
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 talk	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 talk	aux
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 look	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	would	the Cuz seals		scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	seals = seal	there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	would	everyone			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cuz that place is only for the bachelors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bachelors	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bachelors	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 bachelors	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bachelors	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bachelors	det
8	bachelors	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cuz					for the bachelors	tree rules

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