Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

ngl, why didn't the other seals care about the killing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: not care

This is test 4 · ★ 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	9 care	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 care	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 care	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 care	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seals	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seals	amod
8	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 care	nsubj
9	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 killing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 killing	det
12	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 care	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 care	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	ngl					about the killing	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about killing=Stimulus

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

they weren't there then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 there	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 there	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	they				then	there property	tree rules

Option 2

they never saw it happen because they were off fishing that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 fishing	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fishing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fishing	aux
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 were	compound:prt
10	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fishing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not see	past	they	it		tree rules
2	happen	infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fish	past · progressive	they		day	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they never saw it happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	they	it					tree rules
2	happen	infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they had all been far out in the sea when it happened, so they missed it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 out	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 happened	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 missed	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 missed	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 missed	nsubj
16	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	they				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle			the sea	all, far, out property	tree rules
3	happen	past	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	miss	past	they	sea			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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