Test 6 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

so what was Kotick's whole plan, like, what did he want?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kotick · What happens: be, want · To what, where: whole plan

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
4	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kotick	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 plan	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 want	obj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 want	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
14	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 plan	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Kotick's whole plan					tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	Kotick	Kotick's whole plan					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

An island without men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 island	nmod

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

Option 2

A quiet beach at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beach	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beach	amod
3	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beach	nmod

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

Option 3

To become the leader of all the seals in the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 become	mark
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leader	det
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 become	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 seals	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 seals	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seals	det
8	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leader	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 north	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 north	det
11	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	to-infinitive		the leader of all seals in the north					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

To find a new mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mate	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		a new mate					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic

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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