Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

bet, what was Kotick's mood when he left the strange creatures?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bet · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: mood, strange creatures

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mood	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mood	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mood	cop
5	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mood	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kotick	case
7	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bet	conj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 left	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 creatures	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creatures	amod
13	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bet and Kotick's mood	Kotick's mood					tree rules
2	leave	past	bet and Kotick's mood	the strange creatures					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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

he was losing his temper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 losing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temper	nmod:poss
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · progressive	he	his temper					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	temper		his = he						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he was very cross and close to losing his temper completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 close	cc
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cross	conj
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 losing	mark
8	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 close	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 temper	nmod:poss
10	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 losing	obj
11	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 losing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		cross property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	lose	gerund	he not said here	his temper	completely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
4	temper		his = he			nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he was getting angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 getting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	aux
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	he					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

he was losing his temper and wanted to fight them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 losing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temper	nmod:poss
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fight	mark
9	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fight	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	past · progressive	he	his temper	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	want	past	he not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	temper		his = he		nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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