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Test 1 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Liam, 9: "The Whale ate the sailor and never let him out." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Liam, you · What happens: eat, not let out, put · To what, where: sailor, Whale

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» 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

Sentence 1: Liam, 9: "The Whale ate the sailor and never let him out."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 9	punct
3	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Liam	appos
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Whale	det
7	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sailor	det
10	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 ate	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 let	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	Liam	the sailor					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Patient
2	not let out in a quote	infinitive	Liam not said here	Whale					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Whale			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He stayed inside

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He					inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The sailor walked out on the beach near his home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 walked	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 home	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	past	the sailor			the beach		near sailor's home	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

The sailor was eaten and never came out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sailor	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		the sailor					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not come out	past						out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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