Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…
Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab." ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.) On which day did the work begin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: day · What happens: do, not do, begin · To what, where: thing, bab, work
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Country | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Country | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Country | det |
| 4 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Country | compound |
| 5 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 day | det |
| 9 | Camel | Camel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 day | compound |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Country | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 week | det |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bab | punct |
| 17 | bab | bab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Country | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Country | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Country | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | a thing | day; week | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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.
Sentence 2: ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 did | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bab | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bab | punct |
| 10 | bab | bab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bab | punct |
| 12 | = | = | SYM | _ | 13 dear | punct |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bab | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | day | bab | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: On which day did the work begin?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 work | det |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the work | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tuesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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