Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

wait, why did Kerick think the white seal was a ghost?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Kerick, white seal · What happens: wait, think, be · To what, where: ghost · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 think	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	Kerick	Kerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seal	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seal	amod
9	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ghost	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ghost	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ghost	det
12	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	Kerick		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the white seal	a ghost	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

Because the white seal looked exactly like his dead son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 looked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seal	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seal	amod
4	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the white seal					like seal's dead son; exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

He thought the white seal had come up from the drowned boats

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seal	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seal	amod
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 boats	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boats	det
11	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 boats	amod
12	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come up	past · perfect	the white seal	the drowned boats	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from boat=Initial_Location
3	drown	participle			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Seals never come back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	present	Seals					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He had been lost in the gale

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 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 gale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gale	det
7	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		He		the gale			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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