Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

True or false: the Djinn gives the Camel the hump only to punish him.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Djinn · What happens: give, punish · To what, where: Camel, Djinn

This is test 5 · ★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Djinn	det
6	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Camel	det
9	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hump	det
11	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 punish	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 punish	mark
14	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gives	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 punish	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the Djinn	the Camel					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent camel=Recipient hump=Theme
2	punish	to-infinitive	the Djinn not said here	Djinn					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

True: he got it as a punishment for being rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 punishment	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 punishment	csubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 punishment	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 punishment	det
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 rude	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 rude	cop
11	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 punishment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	gerund						rude property	tree rules

Option 2

True, only punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 punishment	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 punishment	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 punishment	advmod
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

True: the Djinn only punishes, nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 punishes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Djinn	det
4	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 punishes	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 punishes	advmod
6	punishes	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nothing	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 punishes	obj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 punishes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	present	the Djinn	nothing					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False: it also lets him work three days without eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lets	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 lets	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lets	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 lets	advmod
5	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lets	obj
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lets	xcomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 work	obj
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 eating	mark
11	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	present	it	him = he		tree rules
2	work	infinitive	him = he not said here		day	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	him = he not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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