Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

bro, what did the old dying seal want Kotick to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, Kotick · What happens: do, die, want · To what, where: old dying seal, Kotick

This is test 7 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	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	1 bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seal	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seal	amod
7	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 seal	amod
8	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the old dying seal	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Eventuality
2	die	gerund			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	want	present	bro	Kotick	tree rules
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kotick not said here		vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

lead the seals somewhere quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seals	det
3	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lead	obj
4	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 lead	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lead	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	imperative	you not said here	the seals				quiet, somewhere property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

Option 2

find the seals a quiet home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seals	det
3	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 find	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 home	amod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seals	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	the seals					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

lead the seals somewhere quiet and far from the men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seals	det
3	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lead	obj
4	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 lead	advmod
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 somewhere	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 far	cc
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 somewhere	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 men	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	imperative	you not said here	the seals				from the men; somewhere property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seal=Theme from man=Destination

Option 4

lead all the seals to a quiet island where nobody hunts them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 seals	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seals	det
4	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lead	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 island	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 island	det
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 island	amod
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lead	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 hunts	advmod
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 hunts	nsubj
11	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 island	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	imperative	you not said here	all seals		a quiet island			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seal=Theme to island=Destination
2	hunt	present	nobody	seals = seal					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/618-pg236-part19/t7/