Test 6 · ★ · Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the co…
Ever seen a Coppersmith? Like, loud bird?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see · To what, where: Coppersmith
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 623 «Jungle Book, Rikki-tikki-tavi: Rikki-tikki destroys the cobra eggs, saves Teddy, and kills Nagaina» 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
Sentence 1: Ever seen a Coppersmith?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 seen | advmod |
| 2 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Coppersmith | det |
| 4 | Coppersmith | Coppersmith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 seen | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 seen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | participle | a Coppersmith | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coppersmith=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Like, loud bird?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Like | punct |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yeah, it sounds like a drum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sounds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 drum | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drum | det |
| 7 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | it | like a drum | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Nah, it sings like a flute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 flute | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flute | det |
| 7 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | it | like a flute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it sounds like a hammer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sounds | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 hammer | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hammer | det |
| 7 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounds | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | it | like a hammer | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, it's a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a bird | tree rules |
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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