Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

no cap, what did the albatross tell him about Kerguelen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: albatross, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 albatross	det
7	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	obj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 Kerguelen	case
11	Kerguelen	Kerguelen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the albatross					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent albatross=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	no cap		him = he			about Kerguelen	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about kerguelen=Topic

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

it was the place for peace

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	4 place	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 peace	case
6	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the place				for peace	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it was the isle for quiet

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	4 isle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 isle	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 isle	det
4	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 quiet	case
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 isle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the isle				for quiet	tree rules

Option 3

it was the best place for peace and quiet in the sea

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	5 place	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 peace	case
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quiet	cc
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quiet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the best place				for peace	tree rules
2	be					the sea			tree rules

Option 4

it was the peace place

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	5 place	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 place	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	compound
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the peace place					tree rules

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