Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…
did kotick win the fight with the big seals or nah
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: win · To what, where: fight
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 2 | kotick | kotick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 win | amod |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fight | det |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 win | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 seals | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seals | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seals | amod |
| 9 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 win | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 seals | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 win | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · do-support | the fight | with the big seals | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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
nah, they all beat him and sent him running
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 beat | advmod |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sent | cc |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sent | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | they | him = he | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | they not said here | him = he | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah he tried but they got him back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 tried | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | he | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get back | past | they | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he was splendid, banged them all up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 splendid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 splendid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | cop |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 banged | punct |
| 7 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 banged | obj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 up | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 banged | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bang | past | he not said here | them = they | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
Option 4
nah, not really, he got banged up by the big seals and had to hide on the rocks for ages, sad
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 banged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 banged | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 banged | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 banged | aux:pass |
| 8 | banged | bang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 banged | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 seals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seals | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seals | amod |
| 13 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 banged | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 banged | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hide | mark |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rocks | det |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hide | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ages | case |
| 22 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hide | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sad | punct |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 banged | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bang up | past · passive | the big seals | he | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the big seals not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | the big seals not said here | the rocks | for ages | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
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