Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

★★★ Kipling's real joke: what is the double meaning of "the hump"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real joke, Kipling · What happens: be, joke · To what, where: double meaning

This is test 16 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 joke	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	7 joke	nsubj
3	★	★	ADP	_	7 joke	case
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 joke	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kipling	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 meaning	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 meaning	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 meaning	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meaning	det
12	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 meaning	amod
13	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joke	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 hump	case
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 hump	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hump	det
17	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meaning	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 hump	punct
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Kipling's real joke and the double meaning	the double meaning				of the hump	tree rules
2	joke		Kipling						nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A rock in the sand and a sour look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rock	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 look	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
8	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	amod
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rock	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A lump on a camel's back, and a grumpy mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 camel	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lump	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mood	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mood	det
11	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mood	amod
12	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	conj

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

Option 3

A lump on a camel's back, and also a grumpy mood, which Kipling is laughing about throughout

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 camel	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mood	cc
10	also	also	ADV	_	13 mood	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mood	det
12	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mood	amod
13	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughing	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 laughing	nsubj
16	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laughing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 laughing	aux
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 mood	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 throughout	advmod
20	throughout	throughout	ADV	_	18 laughing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	a grumpy mood					throughout property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A lump on a camel's back, and also a grumpy mood, which is what Kipling is laughing about all along

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughing	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camel	det
5	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 camel	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mood	cc
10	also	also	ADV	_	13 mood	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mood	det
12	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mood	amod
13	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 what	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	cop
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 mood	conj
18	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 what	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 laughing	aux
20	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	ADV	_	20 laughing	obl
23	along	along	ADV	_	20 laughing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a grumpy mood	a lump on a camel's back and a grumpy mood					tree rules
2	laugh	present · progressive	a lump on a camel's back and a grumpy mood					along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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