Exam question 3 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, most · What happens: select, characteris · To what, where: response, alimentary consequence

This is exam question 3 of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 characterises	mark
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 characterises	nsubj
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 most	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 consequence	det
9	alimentary	alimentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 consequence	amod
10	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 grating	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grating	det
13	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 consequence	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 Whale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Whale	det
16	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grating	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	characteris	present	most	the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale					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 could thereafter consume only very small fish

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 consume	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 consume	aux
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	4 consume	advmod
4	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consume	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	could	He	small fish				thereafter property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Asset

Option 2

He would starve and die near Albion

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	3 starve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 die	cc
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 starve	conj
6	near	near	ADP	_	7 Albion	case
7	Albion	Albion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	would	He						tree rules
2	die	infinitive	He not said here			Albion			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

He could thereafter consume only very small fish and never swallow another man

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 consume	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 consume	aux
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	4 consume	advmod
4	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 fish	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consume	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swallow	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 swallow	advmod
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 consume	conj
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	could	He	small fish				thereafter property	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Asset
2	not swallow	infinitive	He not said here	another man					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 4

He could eat crabs and seals instead

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	3 eat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 seals	cc
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crabs	conj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	He	crabs and seals				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=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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