Test 2 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 27: Peterse…

lol the hill drivers kept asking "when'd you see the elephants dance" right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hill drivers, you, elephants · What happens: keep, ask, see, dance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drivers	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drivers	compound
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 see	advmod
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asking	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephants	det
13	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dance	nsubj
14	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 see	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 dance	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	11 see	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	the hill drivers	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	the hill drivers not said here	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	would	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	dance in a quote	present	the elephants	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

yeah, it's a joke they keep making about who has seen the most dancing elephants

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	acl:relcl
9	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seen	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 making	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elephants	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 elephants	advmod
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 elephants	compound
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a joke	tree rules
2	keep	present	they	a joke not said here	tree rules
3	make	gerund	a joke not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	see	present · perfect		the dancing elephants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it's their running joke about boasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 joke	nmod:poss
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 boasting	case
9	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	their running joke				about boasting	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they actually saw the elephants dance on the hill last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephants	det
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dance	nsubj
8	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	they			the hill	year	actually 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

Option 4

yeah, they are boasting about their hunts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 boasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boasting	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boasting	aux
5	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 hunts	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hunts	nmod:poss
8	hunts	hunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boasting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	present · progressive	they					about their hunts	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hunt=Topic

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