Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

★★★ Count the animals that asked the Camel to work. Then add the Man, who never went to the Camel himself. How many came to the Camel in person before the Djinn?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, animals, you, Man, many · What happens: count, ask, work, add, not go, come · To what, where: animals, Camel, Man

This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ Count the animals that asked the Camel to work.

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Count	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Camel	det
10	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Camel	acl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	count	infinitive	★	the animals	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the animals	the Camel	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent camel=Recipient
3	work	to-infinitive	the animals not said here	the Camel not said here	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Then add the Man, who never went to the Camel himself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 add	advmod
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Man	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Camel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Camel	det
11	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 went	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the Man			then		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
2	not go	past	the Man	Man		the Camel			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camel=Initial_Location

Sentence 3: How many came to the Camel in person before the Djinn?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Camel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Camel	det
6	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 person	case
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Camel	nmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 Djinn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Djinn	det
11	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	many			the Camel in person	before the Djinn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camel=Initial_Location

The options

Option 1

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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