Test 14 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

Lol, who got scared of their own son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» 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	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 son	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past						scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Machua Appa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Machua	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the old driver Machua Appa, who feared the boy's dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 driver	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 driver	amod
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feared	nsubj
4	Machua	Machua	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 driver	appos
5	Appa	Appa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Machua	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feared	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 feared	nsubj
8	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dancing	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 boy	case
12	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the old driver	the boy's dancing					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus
2	dance		the boy						nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Petersen Sahib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Petersen	Petersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Sahib	Sahib	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Petersen	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Big Toomai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Toomai	amod
2	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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