Test 12 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Honestly, what does the narrator hide from Vixen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: hide · To what, where: Vixen

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 hide	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 hide	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hide	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	nsubj
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Vixen	case
9	Vixen	Vixen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · do-support	the narrator			Vixen		honestly property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Patient from vixen=Beneficiary

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

his skill with horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skill	nmod:poss
2	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 horses	case
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skill	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he understands beast talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 understands	nsubj
2	understands	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	compound
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understands	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	present	he	beast talk					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus

Option 3

that he can understand every word the animals say to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 understand	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 each	case
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 say	obl
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	can	he	every word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	the animals		each				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

Option 4

that he has been secretly listening to the animals talk for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 listening	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 listening	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 listening	aux
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	6 listening	advmod
6	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 talk	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animals	det
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	nsubj
10	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present · perfect · progressive	he					secretly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	talk	present	the animals				year		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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