Test 3 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…
Innit wild that the mule kicked the camel, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mule · What happens: kick · To what, where: camel
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wild | compound |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kicked | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 kicked | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mule | det |
| 5 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | nsubj |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camel | det |
| 8 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kicked | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kicked | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 kicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | the mule | the camel | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent camel=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 kicked him twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kicked | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kicked | nsubj |
| 4 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kicked | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 kicked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past | it | him = he | twice property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, two hard kicks in the ribs and a bite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 kicks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 kicks | nummod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kicks | amod |
| 5 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ribs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ribs | det |
| 8 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kicks | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bite | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bite | det |
| 11 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, one kick to the knee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kick | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kick | nummod |
| 4 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 knee | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knee | det |
| 7 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kick | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, two kicks in the ribs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 kicks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kicks | nummod |
| 4 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ribs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ribs | det |
| 7 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kicks | nmod |
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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