Test 4 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…
Lol, what's Two Tails so scared of?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Two Tails
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 Tails | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Tails | cop |
| 5 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Tails | nummod |
| 6 | Tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 scared | advmod |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Tails | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 scared | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tails | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Two Tails | 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
little barking dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dogs | amod |
| 2 | barking | barking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dogs | compound |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
any small dog that barks very loudly at night and chases him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 barks | nsubj |
| 5 | barks | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 loudly | advmod |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 barks | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 barks | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chases | cc |
| 11 | chases | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 barks | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chases | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | present | any small dog | night | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | chase | present | any small dog not said here | dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3
little barking dogs running loose through the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dogs | amod |
| 2 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dogs | amod |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dogs | acl |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 4 running | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 yard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yard | det |
| 8 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | run | gerund | little barking dogs not said here | through the yard; loose property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through yard=Trajectory |
Option 4
small wild foxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foxes | amod |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foxes | amod |
| 3 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/631-pg236-part32/t4/