Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

so what made Kotick go and ask Sea Vitch anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kotick · What happens: make, go, ask · To what, where: Kotick, Sea

This is test 13 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ask	cc
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
9	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sea	flat
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 ask	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past		Kotick			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Kotick not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Kotick not said here		Sea	anyway property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sea=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

The sea lion sent him there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	compound
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the sea lion	him = he		there			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sea lion told him where the walrus lived and he went at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	compound
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lived	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walrus	det
8	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the sea lion	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	live	past	the walrus		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	walrus		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

Fear of the hunters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 hunters	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunters	det
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			the hunters					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

He wanted a new home

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 home	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 home	amod
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a new home					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot home=Theme

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