Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

what's Sea Pig's whole deal, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sea Pig · What happens: be, deal

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pig	compound
4	Pig	Pig	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Pig	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	deal		Sea Pig						nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

He's the old fish who knows the tides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knows	nsubj
7	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tides	det
9	tides	tide	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the old fish					tree rules
2	know	present	the old fish	the tides					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tide=Stimulus

Option 2

He's the wise old porpoise who can smell storms coming and shouts warnings at the beach

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 porpoise	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 porpoise	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porpoise	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 porpoise	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 porpoise	amod
6	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 smell	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 smell	aux
9	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 porpoise	acl:relcl
10	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smell	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 smell	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouts	cc
13	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 porpoise	conj
14	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shouts	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 beach	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beach	det
17	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the wise old porpoise		tree rules
2	smell	can	the wise old porpoise	storms		tree rules
3	come	gerund	the wise old porpoise not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shout speech: express	present	He not said here	warnings	the beach	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Topic

Option 3

He's a porpoise who warns everyone about gales and knows all the currents and stars

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 porpoise	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 porpoise	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 porpoise	det
4	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 warns	nsubj
6	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 porpoise	acl:relcl
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 warns	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 gales	case
9	gales	gale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 everyone	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knows	cc
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warns	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 currents	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 currents	det
14	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knows	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stars	cc
16	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 currents	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a porpoise			tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	present	a porpoise		everyone	about gales	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about gale=Topic
3	know	present	a porpoise not said here	all currents and stars			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer current=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's the wise porpoise who feels the gales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 porpoise	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 porpoise	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porpoise	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 porpoise	amod
5	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feels	nsubj
7	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 porpoise	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gales	det
9	gales	gale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feels	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	the wise porpoise					tree rules
2	feel	present	the wise porpoise	the gales					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gale=Theme

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