Test 9 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

ok real talk, what do the seal hunters do to the seals' skin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seal hunters · What happens: do · To what, where: ok real talk

This is test 9 · ★ 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunters	det
8	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunters	compound
9	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 skin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seals	det
13	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 skin	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 seals	case
15	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		ok real talk					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	do	present	the seal hunters					to the seals's skin	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cut it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cut	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Cut	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

Salt it down whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Salt	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Salt	compound:prt
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Salt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	salt down	imperative	you not said here	it				whole property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Boil it in big pots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Boil	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pots	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pots	amod
5	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boil	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	imperative	you not said here	it				in big pots	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in pot=Instrument

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rip it off in one piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rip	rip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rip	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Rip	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 piece	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 piece	nummod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip off	imperative	you not said here	it		one piece			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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