Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai…

Fr, how many elephants showed up for the thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: show up

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 627 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 28: Toomai rides Kala Nag to the secret elephant gathering» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 elephants	amod
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 showed	nsubj
6	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 showed	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 thing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	past	Fr					for the thing	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

More elephants than anyone in the camp had ever seen gathered together in one place at one time

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 elephants	amod
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seen	nsubj
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 elephants	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 camp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 camp	det
7	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anyone	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seen	xcomp
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 gathered	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 place	nummod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathered	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 time	nummod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	More elephants than anyone				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	gather	participle	More elephants than anyone not said here			one place	time	together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

So many wild elephants that the whole hillside seemed to be moving with their dark grey backs

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	9 seemed	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephants	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elephants	amod
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 seemed	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 seemed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hillside	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hillside	amod
8	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 moving	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 moving	aux
12	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seemed	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 backs	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 backs	nmod:poss
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 backs	amod
16	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 backs	amod
17	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	many wild elephants						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	move	to-infinitive · progressive	many wild elephants not said here					with elephants's dark grey backs	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scores and scores of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 scores	cc
3	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scores	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scores	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	score			Scores = score					nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Dozens of them, all moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 moving	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dozens	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moving	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 moving	nsubj
6	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund	Dozens of them						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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