Test 1 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Dude, did the camel actually flatten that tent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, flatten · To what, where: camel, tent

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 629 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Shiva, then a wrecked tent and a noisy night among the army animals» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 flatten	advmod
7	flatten	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tent	det
9	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flatten	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the camel					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Eventuality
2	flatten	present	Dude not said here	that tent				actually property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Patient

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, it flopped right on the tent, poles and all, bang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flopped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flopped	nsubj
4	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 flopped	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 tent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tent	det
8	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flopped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 poles	punct
10	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tent	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 all	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 poles	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bang	punct
14	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	past	it			the tent poles and bang		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tent=Location

Option 2

yeah, it came down right on top of the tent and flattened everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	right	right	ADV	_	8 top	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tent	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tent	det
11	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flattened	cc
13	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 flattened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	it			top of the tent		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location
2	flatten	past		everything					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it flopped right on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flopped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flopped	nsubj
4	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 flopped	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	past	it			it		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

Option 4

yeah, it fell on the tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tent	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tent	det
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			the tent			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tent=Location

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