Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

did Kotick nearly drown at first, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: drown, innit · To what, where: Kotick

This is test 6 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Kotick	aux
2	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drown	obl
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 drown	advmod
4	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 drown	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drown	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	present		Kotick				nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	innit	infinitive							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

Yeah, he got swept out by a huge wave and nearly sank, then his mum had to rescue him

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 swept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swept	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	aux:pass
5	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 swept	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 wave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wave	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wave	amod
10	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swept	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sank	cc
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	13 sank	advmod
13	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 had	advmod
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mum	nmod:poss
17	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swept	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 rescue	mark
20	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rescue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sweep out	past · passive	a huge wave	he			vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
2	sink	past	a huge wave not said here			nearly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	have	past	his mum		then		tree rules
4	rescue	to-infinitive	his mum not said here	him = he			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a current dragged him way out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dragged	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 current	det
4	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	nsubj
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragged	obj
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	obl:unmarked
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	a current	him = he				way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, a massive surf knocked him over and he panicked, swallowed water, and almost died

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 surf	det
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surf	amod
5	surf	surf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	6 knocked	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 panicked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 panicked	nsubj
11	panicked	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swallowed	punct
13	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	conj
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swallowed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock over	past	a massive surf	him = he		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	panic	past	surf			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	swallow	past	a massive surf not said here	water		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	die	past	a massive surf not said here		almost property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a wave took him out too deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 deep	advmod
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 took	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	a wave	him = he				deep property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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