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Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Dad, dead sarcastic: "Oh great, let's all go paddle at Fifty North." What does the poem say it's like there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poem, it · What happens: let, go, say, be · To what, where: 's, paddle, Fifty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: Dad, dead sarcastic: "Oh great, let's all go paddle at Fifty North."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sarcastic	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sarcastic	amod
4	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dad	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 let	discourse
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Oh	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Dad	appos
11	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
13	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	advcl
14	paddle	paddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Fifty	case
16	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 go	obl
17	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fifty	nmod:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	go in a quote	present		paddle		Fifty North		all property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paddle=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: What does the poem say it's like there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poem	det
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 there	csubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 there	case
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the poem						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is	present	it					there property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Icy, the waves freezing on the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 waves	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waves	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 waves	det
4	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	freezing	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 waves	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 deck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deck	det
8	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 freezing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	gerund	the Icy waves not said here			the deck			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stormy, the ship rolling and everyone seasick, so the Mariner had to paddle his toes in the cold

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rolling	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	nsubj
5	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stormy	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seasick	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 seasick	nsubj
8	seasick	seasick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rolling	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mariner	det
12	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stormy	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 paddle	mark
15	paddle	paddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 toes	nmod:poss
17	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 paddle	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cold	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cold	det
20	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 paddle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	the ship						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the Mariner						tree rules
3	paddle	to-infinitive	the Mariner not said here	Mariner's toes		the cold			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toe=Patient in cold=Location

Option 3

Foggy, the sailors hungry and wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Foggy	foggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailors	det
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hungry	nsubj
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Foggy	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wet	cc
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Foggy	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stormy, the ship rolling and everyone seasick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rolling	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stormy	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	nsubj
5	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seasick	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 seasick	nsubj
8	seasick	seasick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rolling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	the ship						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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