Test 7 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…

what did the young seal say when kotick challenged him

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young seal, kotick · What happens: say, challenge · To what, where: seal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	6 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
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	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 challenged	advmod
8	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 challenged	nsubj
9	challenged	challenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 challenged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the young seal						tree rules
2	challenge	past	kotick	seal					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 · ✓ the right answer

if you win i'll come, carelessly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	3 win	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 win	nsubj
3	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 carelessly	advcl
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 win	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 win	punct
8	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	you						tree rules
2	come	future	i						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he laughed, lol

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct
4	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 laughed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he said fine, then he'd fight

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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fight	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fight	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fight	aux
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					fine property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fight	would	he				then		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he just shrugged and said maybe

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 shrugged	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 shrugged	advmod
3	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shrugged	conj
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrug	past	he						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here					maybe property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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