Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Which word best describes the Mariner?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: describe · To what, where: Mariner

This is test 12 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 word	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mariner	det
6	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which word	the Mariner					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mariner=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.

The options

Option 1

Brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brave	brave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Determined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Quick-thinking and handy with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thinking	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Quick	punct
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 handy	cc
5	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thinking	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 knife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						with a knife	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Resourceful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Resourceful	Resourceful	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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