Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

fr, what did the seals do on the new grass after the swim?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seals · What happens: do · To what, where: new grass

This is test 12 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	appos
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seals	det
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 grass	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 swim	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swim	det
14	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the seals			the new grass	after the swim		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Hunted fish and built nests along the sandy shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nests	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunted	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 built	cc
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hunted	conj
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shore	amod
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	participle		fish					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	build	participle							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Lay still in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Lay	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here			the sun	still		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sun=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rolled and told stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stories	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Rolled	conj
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	participle							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sang and played games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	Sang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 Sang	cc
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Sang	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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