Test 10 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Fam, what did the camel say was keeping him up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, say, keep up · To what, where: camel, Fam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 631 «Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quarrel in the dark about fear until a little dog stops the elephant» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 camel	det
6	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keeping	aux
9	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keeping	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 keeping	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Fam	the camel	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Fam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep up	past · progressive		Fam	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

bad dreams at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dreams	amod
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dreams	nmod

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

Option 2

strange calls outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 calls	amod
2	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 calls	advmod

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

Option 3

bad dreams at night from the wild horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dreams	amod
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dreams	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 horses	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horses	compound
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dreams	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the terrible noise of the bullocks in the yard at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bullocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bullocks	det
6	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 noise	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bullocks	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		the bullocks in the yard				at night		nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent at=obl

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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