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Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Mason says: "Whales got baleen when a sailor jammed a raft in one." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mason, Whales, sailor, you · What happens: say, get, jam, put · To what, where: baleen, raft, sailor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Mason says: "Whales got baleen when a sailor jammed a raft in one."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	mason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
5	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 jammed	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sailor	det
10	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jammed	nsubj
11	jammed	jam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 raft	det
13	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jammed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 jammed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mason						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	past	Whales	baleen					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baleen=Stimulus
3	jam in a quote	past	a sailor	a raft				in one	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent raft=Theme in one=Destination

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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		sailor			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Whales are born with baleen; it grew over millions of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 baleen	case
5	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 millions	case
10	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		Whales				with baleen	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	grow	past	baleen			millions of years			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over million=Location

Option 2

Whales grew it after the sailor's raft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	8 raft	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raft	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sailor	case
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Whales	it			after the sailor's raft		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

Whales got baleen from eating krill at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
6	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Whales	baleen					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baleen=Stimulus
2	eat	gerund	Whales not said here	krill		sea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sailors made them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Sailors	them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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