Test 11 · ★ · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

the troop-horse says white blokes with no bed are dodgy, mate, why's that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: troop horse, white blokes, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 632 «Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question orders before the big parade» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
2	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 troop	punct
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blokes	amod
7	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dodgy	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bed	det
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blokes	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dodgy	cop
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dodgy	vocative
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 says	conj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 why	cop
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 why	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the troop horse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	white blokes with no bed	mate vocative; dodgy property	tree rules
3	is	present	that	why property	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

he carries Government stuff

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 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuff	compound
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	he	Government stuff					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 2

they're not from here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 here	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 here	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 here	case
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	they					here property	tree rules

Option 3

he's a thief

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	4 thief	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a thief					tree rules

Option 4

they steal the stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 steal	nsubj
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stuff	det
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	they	the stuff					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme

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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