Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Fam, what's the camel's name in the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: be · To what, where: name, story

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 name	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 name	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 camel	case
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fam	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fam	the camel's name		the story			tree rules

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

the narrator calls it Ginger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 narrator	det
2	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 calls	obj
5	Ginger	Ginger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	the narrator	it					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme ginger=Result

Option 2

they call it Ginger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 call	obj
4	Ginger	Ginger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	they	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3

the camel is named in the second part of the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 camel	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 part	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		the camel		the second part of the story			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the story never names it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 names	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 names	advmod
4	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 names	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not name	present	the story	it					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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