Test 2 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

bruh, why did the hunters even bring the seals up to the pens?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunters · What happens: bring up · To what, where: seals

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bring	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunters	det
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bring	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 bring	advmod
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seals	det
10	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bring	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	8 bring	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pens	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pens	det
14	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bring	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · do-support	the hunters	the seals				to the pens	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent seal=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

To club the young bachelor seals for their skins and fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 club	mark
2	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seals	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seals	amod
5	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seals	compound
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 club	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 skins	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skins	nmod:poss
9	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seals	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fat	cc
11	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seals	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To sell the fur overseas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sell	mark
2	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fur	det
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sell	obj
5	overseas	overseas	ADV	_	2 sell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive		the fur				overseas property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme

Option 3

Because the old bulls ordered it every single season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 ordered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bulls	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bulls	amod
4	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ordered	nsubj
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordered	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 season	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 season	amod
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the old bulls	it			season		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To make seal-skin jackets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jackets	compound
6	jackets	jacket	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		skin jackets					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jacket=Product

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