Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…
yo did Kotick really scream clam-eater at Sea Vitch for like five minutes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, scream · To what, where: Kotick, clam eater, Sea Vitch
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 618 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea Vitch, then searches the seas for a quiet island and finds men had been there first» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 2 did | discourse |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kotick | Kotick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 scream | advmod |
| 5 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | clam | clam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eater | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 clam | punct |
| 8 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scream | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Vitch | case |
| 10 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Vitch | compound |
| 11 | Vitch | Vitch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scream | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 minutes | nummod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scream | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Kotick | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | present | clam eater | Sea Vitch | minute | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic |
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
nah, just a minute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 minute | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 minute | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minute | det |
| 5 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
fr, the gulls joined in too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gulls | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gulls | det |
| 4 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 fr | conj |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gulls | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 joined | compound:prt |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 joined | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in | participle | the gulls not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, the seals joined too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 joined | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 joined | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seals | det |
| 4 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 joined | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | the seals | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
nah, the puffins only watched
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 watched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 puffins | det |
| 4 | puffins | puffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 watched | advmod |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the puffins | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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