Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

yo, what did the big creatures do with their front flippers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big creatures · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ 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	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creatures	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 flippers	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 flippers	nmod:poss
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flippers	amod
12	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the big creatures					with creatures's front flippers	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 · ← Mova's choice

waved them like a walrus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 waved	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 walrus	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walrus	det
5	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past		them = they				like a walrus	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

waved them like a fat bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 waved	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past		them = they				like a fat bird	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

waved them like a fat man waves his arm at flies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 waved	obj
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 waves	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waves	nsubj
7	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 waved	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waves	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 flies	case
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past		them = they					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	wave	present	a fat man	man's arm				at flies	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

waved them like a fat man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 waved	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past		them = they				like a fat man	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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