Test 5 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

lol, what did the sea lion say when Kotick freaked out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kotick · What happens: do, say, freak out · To what, where: sea lion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	compound
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 freaked	advmod
10	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 freaked	nsubj
11	freaked	freak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 freaked	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the sea lion	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	freak out	past	Kotick		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

"Wow"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wow	punct
2	Wow	wow	INTJ	_	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wow	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Nonsense!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"Silly seal!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct
2	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seal	amod
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct

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

Option 4

"No!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct

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

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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