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Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Sophie, Texas: "Y'all, that Whale just turned round three times on his tail like a dang dog." When did he do that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sophie · What happens: turn round, do · To what, where: tail, that

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Sophie, Texas: "Y'all, that Whale just turned round three times on his tail like a dang dog."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Texas	punct
3	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sophie	nmod:unmarked
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Y'all	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Y'all	punct
6	Y'all	y'all	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Sophie	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Whale	punct
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 Whale	det
9	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	round	round	ADV	_	13 three	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	obl:unmarked
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 dog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dog	det
20	dang	dang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dog	amod
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round in a quote	past	Sophie Texas Y'all			Whale's tail	time	like a dang dog	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory

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: When did he do that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Sophie	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

After the hiccoughs stopped at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 stopped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hiccoughs	det
3	hiccoughs	hiccough	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the hiccoughs				dusk		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

When the Mariner tickled his tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 tickled	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mariner	det
3	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tickled	nsubj
4	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tickled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	past	the Mariner	Mariner's tongue					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Experiencer

Option 3

At dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Right after he swallowed the Mariner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADV	_	4 swallowed	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 swallowed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swallowed	nsubj
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mariner	det
6	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swallowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	he	the Mariner				right property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=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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