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Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Nan in Glasgow: "Och, the wee fish was a right fly one, so he was." ("wee" = small, "fly" = sly and clever.) Which fish does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nan, fish · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: right fly

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Nan in Glasgow: "Och, the wee fish was a right fly one, so he was."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fly	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Glasgow	case
3	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nan	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
6	Och	och	INTJ	_	14 fly	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Och	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fly	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fly	amod
14	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 fly	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 was	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Nan in Glasgow	a right fly					tree rules
2	be in a quote	past	fish						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: ("wee" = small, "fly" = sly and clever.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
3	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wee	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 small	punct
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	parataxis
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
11	=	=	SYM	_	12 sly	punct
12	sly	sly	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sly	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct

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

Sentence 3: Which fish does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	which fish						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

The Mariner himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mariner	det
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Mariner	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The small 'Stute Fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fish	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fish	amod
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 Stute	punct
4	Stute	Stute	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fish	compound
5	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Mariner, the wee sailor from the raft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mariner	det
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sailor	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
5	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sailor	amod
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mariner	appos
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 raft	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raft	det
9	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailor	nmod

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

Option 4

The big Whale's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Whale	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Whale	amod
3	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tail	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Whale	case
5	tail	tail	NOUN	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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