Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

lowkey, was Kotick a regular seal or was he different?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seal	cop
4	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seal	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seal	det
6	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seal	amod
7	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 different	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 different	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 different	nsubj
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seal	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 seal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	a regular seal					tree rules
2	is	past	Kotick					different property	tree rules

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

he was a grey seal

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	5 seal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seal	det
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seal	amod
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a grey seal					tree rules

Option 2

a regular seal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seal	det
2	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seal	amod
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was a white seal

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	5 seal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seal	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seal	amod
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a white seal					tree rules

Option 4

no, normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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