Test 10 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…

what did sea catch say about his son after the fight

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: catch, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 619 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a safe island and wins a fight for the seals» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 catch	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	compound
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	advcl
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 son	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 fight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fight	det
11	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present					after the fight	about his son	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

he's a fool but the best fighter on the beaches

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	4 fool	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fighter	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fighter	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fighter	amod
8	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fool	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 beaches	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beaches	det
11	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fool	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a fool but the best fighter		the beaches			tree rules

Option 2

he's kinda dumb but a strong fighter, lowkey

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	4 dumb	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dumb	cop
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 dumb	advmod
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 fighter	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fighter	det
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fighter	amod
8	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumb	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fighter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					dumb, kinda property	tree rules

Option 3

he's great, i think

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	3 great	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 great	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 great	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					great property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	i						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he's a fool, the worst fighter on the beaches

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	4 fool	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fool	det
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fighter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fighter	det
7	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fighter	amod
8	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fool	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 beaches	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beaches	det
11	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fighter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a fool				the worst fighter on the beaches nmod	tree rules

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