Test 9 · ★ · Jungle Book, Animals in War, part 33: the animals question…

the cavalry was cantering to Bonnie Dundee, sick tune, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cavalry · What happens: canter, innit · To what, where: Bonnie

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 cavalry	det
2	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cantering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cantering	aux
4	cantering	canter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Bonnie	case
6	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cantering	obl
7	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bonnie	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tune	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tune	amod
10	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bonnie	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cantering	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cantering	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	canter	past · progressive	the cavalry		Bonnie				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to bonnie=Result
2	innit	infinitive	the cavalry not said here						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

a sick tune played on the bagpipes by the Scottish regiment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tune	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tune	amod
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tune	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bagpipes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bagpipes	det
7	bagpipes	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 regiment	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 regiment	det
10	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 regiment	amod
11	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		a sick tune not said here		the bagpipes		by the Scottish regiment	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the Scottish canter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 canter	det
2	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 canter	amod
3	canter	canter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Bonnie Dundee canter played by the band at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 canter	det
2	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dundee	compound
3	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 canter	compound
4	canter	canter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 canter	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 band	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 band	det
8	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle		the Dundee canter not said here		the gate		by the band	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Bonnie Dundee canter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 canter	det
2	Bonnie	Bonnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Dundee	compound
3	Dundee	Dundee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 canter	compound
4	canter	canter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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