Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

hold up, what fish did Kotick leave alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fish · What happens: hold up, leave

This is test 9 · ★ 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	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 leave	obj
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
7	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leave	nsubj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 hold	conj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leave	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	leave	past · do-support	fish					alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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

All the small slippery fish near the rocks, cuz they make him sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fish	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 rocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rocks	det
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fish	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cuz	punct
10	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rocks	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rocks	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	rocks = rock	fish				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Flying fish, cuz they're all bony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cuz	punct
4	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	conj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bony	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bony	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 bony	advmod
8	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	fish	Flying fish and cuz not said here				all, bony property	tree rules

Option 3

Herring, cuz they're too slimy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cuz	punct
3	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herring	conj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slimy	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slimy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 slimy	advmod
7	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Herring	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Herring	Herring and cuz not said here				slimy property	tree rules

Option 4

Sharks, cuz they're too fierce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cuz	punct
3	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharks	appos
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fierce	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fierce	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fierce	advmod
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sharks = shark	cuz not said here				fierce property	tree rules

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