Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…
Gutted, the gun-bullocks just lay down and chewed, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gun bullocks · What happens: gut, lie down, chew
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bullocks | det |
| 4 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bullocks | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 gun | punct |
| 6 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Gutted | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chewed | cc |
| 11 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lay | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chewed | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Gutted | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lie down | past | the gun bullocks | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | chew | participle | the gun bullocks not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, they slept in the rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rain | det |
| 7 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | they | the rain | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they chewed the cud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 chewed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chewed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chewed | nsubj |
| 4 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cud | det |
| 6 | cud | cud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chewed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past | they | the cud | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, they lay down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | present | they | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
they just rested
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 | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 rested | advmod |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | they | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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