Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…
★★★ The Camel stopped working on Monday and got his hump on Thursday. The Djinn says he "missed those three days". Which three days, counting from the story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Djinn, three days · What happens: stop, work, get, say, miss, count · To what, where: hump, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 75 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» 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: ★★★ The Camel stopped working on Monday and got his hump on Thursday.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 Camel | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Camel | det |
| 5 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Monday | case |
| 9 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 working | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopped | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hump | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Thursday | case |
| 15 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stopped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | ★ ★ the Camel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | ★ ★ the Camel not said here | monday | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | past | ★ ★ the Camel not said here | ★'s hump | thursday | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |
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: The Djinn says he "missed those three days".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Djinn | det |
| 2 | Djinn | Djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
| 6 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 days | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 missed | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Djinn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | miss in a quote | past | Djinn | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Sentence 3: Which three days, counting from the story?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 days | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 counting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 5 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counting | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 counting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | which three days | the story | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The whole week from Monday through to the weekend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 through | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Monday | case |
| 5 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 week | nmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 weekend | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 weekend | det |
| 9 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 through | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tuesday | punct |
| 3 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Monday | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Wednesday | cc |
| 5 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Monday | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tuesday | punct |
| 3 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Monday | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wednesday | punct |
| 5 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tuesday | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 morning | cc |
| 7 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | compound |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Monday | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wednesday | punct |
| 3 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tuesday | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Thursday | cc |
| 5 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tuesday | conj |
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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