Test 9 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 30: a poem of Sh…

Did the old horse run from a man when he was a baby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, be · To what, where: old horse run, baby

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 run	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 run	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	compound
5	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 baby	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 baby	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 baby	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 baby	det
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old horse run				from a man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Eventuality
2	is a	past	man	a baby					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 right answer

yeah, for half a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 day	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, for a whole day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

no, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 never	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 4

for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	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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