Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow in one gulp, counting the Mariner himself and each thing he had with him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, many separate things · What happens: count, do, have · To what, where: Whale swallow, one gulp, Mariner, thing

This is test 14 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Count	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
4	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 Count	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
9	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Count	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
13	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swallow	compound
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 gulp	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 gulp	nummod
17	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 counting	punct
19	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 did	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Mariner	det
21	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 counting	obj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 counting	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thing	cc
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 thing	det
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 himself	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	infinitive	★			carefully property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past	many separate things	the Whale swallow	one gulp		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality
3	count	gerund	many separate things not said here	the Mariner		★ obl	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=Theme
4	have	past	★	each thing not said here		with him = he	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

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

Five, but counting the Whale's sea water and biscuit tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tin	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 tin	cc
4	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 tin	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Whale	det
6	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Whale	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counting	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 biscuit	cc
11	biscuit	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	conj
12	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Five	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the Whale's sea water and biscuit					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Seven things in all: the Mariner, his raft, and the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 things	nummod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 things	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Mariner	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mariner	det
7	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 things	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 raft	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 raft	nmod:poss
10	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Mariner	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fish	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fish	det
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Mariner	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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