Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

like, what's a farrier, is that a kind of cow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kind, farrier · What happens: be · To what, where: farrier, kind

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 630 «The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army animals talk about being scared and about fighting» 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	like	like	INTJ	_	6 farrier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 farrier	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 farrier	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farrier	det
6	farrier	farrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 farrier	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kind	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 kind	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 cow	case
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a kind	a farrier					tree rules
2	is a	present	a farrier	a kind				of cow	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 · ✓ the right answer

a smith who shoes horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 horses	nsubj
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 horses	compound
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smith	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	horse		a smith						tree rules

Option 2

a soldier who rides a mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rides	nsubj
4	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soldier	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mule	det
6	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	a soldier	a mule					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a cow that pulls the guns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cow	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guns	det
6	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a cow	the guns					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme

Option 4

a horse doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doctor	compound
3	doctor	doctor	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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