Test 9 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s…
wait did the seals all laugh at him, like properly
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: wait, do, laugh · To what, where: seals
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seals | det |
| 4 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 laugh | advmod |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laugh | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 properly | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 properly | case |
| 11 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the seals | properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | laugh | present | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah they all laughed, even his dad at first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dad | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 dad | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dad | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | vocative |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | they | his dad vocative | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 yeah | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah a bit, but the old bulls didn't laugh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bit | discourse |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laugh | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 laugh | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bulls | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bulls | amod |
| 8 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 laugh | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laugh | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 laugh | advmod |
| 11 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bit | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not laugh | past · do-support | the old bulls | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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