Test 4 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…

did kotick find a safe island or was that just sus talk

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kotick · What happens: find, be · To what, where: safe island, sus talk

This is test 4 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
2	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 island	det
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 island	amod
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 talk	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 talk	mark
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 sus	advmod
11	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 talk	amod
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 island	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	kotick	a safe island or sus talk					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic
2	is a	past	kotick not said here	sus talk					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

nah it was sus, no island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sus	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sus	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sus	cop
4	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 island	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sus	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					no island obl; suspect property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah it was fake talk, just empty rocks lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	cop
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	amod
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rocks	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 rocks	advmod
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rocks	amod
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	conj
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	fake talk and empty rocks					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he found one, no cap, no men ever went there

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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 found	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	one				no cap obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	go	past	no men			there	ever		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah it was fake, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fake	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fake	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fake	cop
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fake	punct
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 fake	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					fake property	tree rules

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