Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…

why did the young seal even start on kotick

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, start · To what, where: young seal, kotick

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 start	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 start	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seal	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seal	amod
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 start	advmod
7	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 kotick	case
9	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the young seal					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Eventuality
2	start	present				kotick			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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

he was mad cos kotick came in acting like he owned the place, never fought a single battle, and got all the praise from the herd

The tree, 26 words

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 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	cos	cos	X	_	5 kotick	compound
5	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	ccomp
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 acting	mark
8	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 owned	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 owned	nsubj
11	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 acting	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fought	punct
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 fought	advmod
16	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 owned	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 battle	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 battle	amod
19	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fought	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 praise	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 praise	det
25	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 herd	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 herd	det
28	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			mad property	tree rules
2	come	past	cos kotick				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	act	gerund	cos kotick not said here				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	own	past	kotick	the place			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
5	not fight	past	kotick not said here	a single battle			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
6	get	past	he not said here	all praise	the herd		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent praise=Theme from herd=Source

Option 2

cos he thought kotick was a coward, no cap bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coward	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coward	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coward	det
7	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bro	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bro	compound
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coward	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	cos						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	kotick	a coward and no cap bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was salty cos kotick never fought for a nursery

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 cos	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cos	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cos	amod
4	cos	cos	X	_	7 fought	nsubj
5	kotick	kotick	X	_	4 cos	goeswith
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fought	advmod
7	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 nursery	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nursery	det
10	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	past	salty cos					for a nursery	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he was salty cos kotick never fought for a nursery and the whole herd kept talking about him like he was some kind of legend

The tree, 25 words

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 cos	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cos	cop
3	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cos	amod
4	cos	cos	X	_	7 fought	nsubj
5	kotick	kotick	X	_	4 cos	goeswith
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fought	advmod
7	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 nursery	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nursery	det
10	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fought	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 herd	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 herd	amod
14	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	conj
16	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 kept	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talking	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 kind	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kind	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talking	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 legend	case
25	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not fight	past	salty cos	for a nursery	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	the whole herd		tree rules
3	talk	gerund	the whole herd not said here	about herd	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic
4	is	past	herd	like some kind; of legend	tree rules

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