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Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

In all three stories so far, an animal does something wrong and is changed for ever. Which animal did what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: do, change · To what, where: something

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» 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: In all three stories so far, an animal does something wrong and is changed for ever.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 stories	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 stories	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stories	nummod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 far	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 does	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 does	obj
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 changed	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 changed	aux:pass
15	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 does	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 changed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	a animal	something				far property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
2	change	present · passive	a animal not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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: Which animal did what?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which animal						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whale was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Whale					rude property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Whale ate too much; Camel was idle; Rhino stole a cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 idle	punct
6	Camel	Camel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 idle	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 idle	cop
8	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 stole	punct
10	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stole	nsubj
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cake	det
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Whale	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	is	past	Camel					idle property	tree rules
3	steal	past	Rhino	a cake					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=Theme

Option 3

Whale sang; Camel stole a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 stole	punct
4	Camel	Camel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hat	det
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Whale						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	steal	past	Camel	a hat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hat=Theme

Option 4

Whale was lazy; Camel ate a cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
5	Camel	Camel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cake	det
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Whale					lazy property	tree rules
2	eat	past	Camel	a cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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