Test 12 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

ngl, what did the gulls call Sea Vitch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, gulls · What happens: do, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gulls	det
6	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Vitch	compound
9	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the gulls						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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

louder with bad manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 manners	case
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manners	amod
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 louder	obl

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

Option 2

rude birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

smellier and more rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smellier	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 rude	cc
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rude	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 smellier	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

uglier with worse manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	uglier	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 manners	case
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 manners	amod
4	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 uglier	obl

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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