Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 31: the army…

so when Billy swore, what was that crupper and breastplate thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Billy · What happens: swear, be · To what, where: crupper thing

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 swore	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 swore	advmod
3	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swore	nsubj
4	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 thing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 thing	mark
9	crupper	crupper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 breastplate	cc
11	breastplate	breastplate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crupper	conj
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swore	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 swore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	Billy						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		crupper thing					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

a horse's saddle straps, he was just shocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	compound
5	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shocked	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shocked	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shocked	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 shocked	advmod
10	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 straps	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	horse					shocked property	tree rules

Option 2

a horse's saddle straps and bridle and girth, all buckled tight, he was just shocked

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	compound
5	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bridle	cc
7	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 girth	cc
9	girth	girth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bridle	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buckled	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 buckled	nsubj:pass
12	buckled	buckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 straps	acl
13	tight	tight	ADV	_	12 buckled	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shocked	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shocked	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shocked	cop
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 shocked	advmod
18	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 straps	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buckle	participle · passive	a horse's saddle straps and bridle and girth not said here	all				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	horse					shocked property	tree rules

Option 3

a leather strap for the horse's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 strap	det
2	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strap	compound
3	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 head	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strap	nmod

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

Option 4

a set of harness straps for the horse's chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 set	det
2	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 straps	case
4	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straps	compound
5	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 chest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chest	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 horse	case
10	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	nmod

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

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