Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

bro did Petersen Sahib really say you can go in the Keddahs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, you · What happens: do, say, go · To what, where: Petersen, Keddahs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 626 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Petersen Sahib praises Little Toomai, and Kala Nag breaks loose at night» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Petersen	flat
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Keddahs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Keddahs	det
12	Keddahs	keddah	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	bro	Petersen		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petersen=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	bro not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	can	you		the Keddahs	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in keddah=Location

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

yeah he said you can go once the elephants dance, but it's basically impossible for kids

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 dance	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elephants	det
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dance	nsubj
10	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 impossible	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 impossible	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 impossible	expl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 impossible	cop
15	basically	basically	ADV	_	16 impossible	advmod
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 kids	case
18	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 impossible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	can	you		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	present	the elephants		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	he not said here	for kids; basically, impossible property	tree rules

Option 2

nah he said after the Keddah trip, and then you can pick the big tusker

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 trip	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trip	det
6	Keddah	Keddah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 trip	compound
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pick	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 pick	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 pick	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pick	aux
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tusker	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tusker	amod
16	tusker	tusker	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				after the Keddah trip		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	pick	can	you	the big tusker			then		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusker=Patient

Option 3

yeah, after you see them dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	them = they					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

only after you see the elephants dance, so basically never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 see	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephants	det
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dance	nsubj
7	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 basically	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 basically	advmod
10	basically	basically	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 basically	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you					basically property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dance	present	the elephants						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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