Test 13 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

fr, what did Kotick's mum say about the seventh wave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, mum · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	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	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mum	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kotick	case
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 wave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wave	det
11	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wave	amod
12	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Kotick's mum					about the seventh wave	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

it runs furthest up sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	furthest	furth	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 runs	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 runs	compound:prt
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	present	it	sand				furth property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sand=Theme

Option 2

it goes farthest up the beach and is the strongest of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	farthest	farthest	ADV	_	2 goes	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strongest	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strongest	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 strongest	det
10	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 goes	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 strongest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it			the beach		farthest property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up beach=Initial_Location
2	is	present						of all; strong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it goes farthest up the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	farthest	farthest	ADV	_	2 goes	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it			the beach		farthest property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up beach=Initial_Location

Option 4

it always goes farthest up the beach, my son, so watch out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	farthest	far	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 goes	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 goes	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beach	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watch	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 watch	advmod
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 watch	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	present	it	the beach and my son				always, far property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	watch out	infinitive							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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