Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…

how long did kotick take going back home

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kotick · What happens: take back, go back

This is test 8 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 take	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	kotick	kotick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 take	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past · do-support	kotick					home, long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go back	gerund							vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

like two days, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 days	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

six days, not swimming slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swimming	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swimming	advmod
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 days	acl
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swimming	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	gerund	six days not said here					slow property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

six days, with a rest or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rest	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 days	appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rest	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

one day, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				day		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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