Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, swim off · To what, where: Kotick nap

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nap	compound
7	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 swimming	mark
9	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 swimming	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Kotick nap				bro vocative; long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Eventuality
2	swim off	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Half an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 hour	det:predet
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Until the sun went down behind the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sun			the hills		down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind hill=Location

Option 3

Until the tide turned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Until	until	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tide	det
3	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the tide						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A whole day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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