Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Mariner rhyme

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rhyme	det
4	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rhyme	compound
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grating	punct
7	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rhyme	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grating	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 ating	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ating	punct
11	ating	ating	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ating	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Mariner rhyme				with ating	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Eventuality

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

Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way, as the poem's rhymes often do in Hibernian speech

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jokes	nsubj
2	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 Irish	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Irish	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Irish	cop
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jokes	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jokes	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 says	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 do	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poem	det
17	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rhymes	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 poem	case
19	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 do	nsubj
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 do	advmod
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 speech	case
23	Hibernian	Hibernian	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 speech	compound
24	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	Kipling				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Kipling			irish property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Kipling not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	eat in a quote	gerund	Kipling not said here	that way			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	the poem's rhymes		Hibernian speech	often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rhyme		the poem				nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Because in old English both words meant exactly the same sea creature and the rhyme was once standard

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	7 meant	mark
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 words	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
4	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 meant	obl
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 creature	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creature	compound
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standard	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rhyme	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rhyme	det
15	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creature	conj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 standard	cop
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 standard	advmod
18	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meant	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past						in both old English words	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in word=Attribute
2	is	past	the same sea creature and the rhyme					once, standard property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jokes	nsubj
2	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 Irish	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Irish	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Irish	cop
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 jokes	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 jokes	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 says	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jokes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	present	Kipling	that way		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Kipling		irish property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Kipling not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat in a quote	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Because the words are both spelled alike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 spelled	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spelled	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spelled	aux:pass
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 spelled	advmod
6	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present · passive		the words				alike, both property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme

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