Test 7 · ★ · Jungle Book, Her Majesty's Servants, part 32: animals quar…

Dude, what did the bullocks think blood looked like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, bullocks · What happens: do, think, look · To what, where: blood

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	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	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bullocks	det
6	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obj
9	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 blood	acl
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 looked	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	the bullocks	blood	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme
3	look	participle		blood not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

something warm and red that the sun dries away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 something	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 red	cc
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warm	conj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 dries	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dries	nsubj
8	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 red	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 dries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry away	present	the sun					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

red stuff that soaks in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuff	amod
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 soaks	nsubj
4	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stuff	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 soaks	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak in	present	red stuff						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a thick red sort of juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sort	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sort	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sort	amod
4	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 juice	case
6	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			juice					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the red stuff that soaks in and then dries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stuff	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stuff	amod
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 soaks	nsubj
5	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuff	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 soaks	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dries	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dries	advmod
9	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soaks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak in	present	the red stuff						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dry	present	the red stuff not said here				then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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