Test 3 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

so the seals were mad at Kotick for trying to help, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seals · What happens: be, try, help · To what, where: Kotick

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 mad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seals	det
3	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Kotick	case
7	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 trying	mark
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	11 help	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the seals	Kotick	mad property	tree rules
2	try	gerund	the seals not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the seals not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

nah, they just told him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	they		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

yeah, they told him to hush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hush	mark
7	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hush not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they just said he should grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grow	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow up	should	he						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, they were mad and yelled at him to leave the rookery now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mad	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	cop
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 yelled	cc
7	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mad	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 yelled	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 leave	mark
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 yelled	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rookery	det
13	rookery	rookery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			mad property	tree rules
2	yell speech: express	past	they not said here			at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus
3	leave	to-infinitive	they not said here	the rookery	now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rookery=Theme

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