Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

which way u gotta swim if ur tail tingles down south?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, tail · What happens: swim, tingle down · To what, where: way

This is test 8 · ★ 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl:unmarked
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 swim	nsubj
4	gotta	gotta	PART	_	5 swim	mark
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tingles	mark
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tingles	nsubj
9	tingles	tingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 tingles	advmod
11	south	south	ADV	_	9 tingles	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	u	which way					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tingle down a condition, not said to happen	present	ur's tail					down, south property	vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

East, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 East	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Head north, mate, cuz the tingle means a gale is coming soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuz	compound
2	north	north	ADV	_	1 Head	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Head	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Head	punct
6	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 means	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tingle	det
8	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuz	obj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gale	det
11	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 coming	aux
13	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	ccomp
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive		the tingle		tree rules
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present · progressive	a gale		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

North, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 North	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Go north, bro, the Sticky Water is over that way, so don't go south

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	north	north	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Water	det
7	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Water	amod
8	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 way	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bro	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
18	south	south	ADV	_	17 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		north property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the Sticky Water	that way		tree rules
3	not go	infinitive · do-support	you not said here		south property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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