Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

Which character in the first two stories was really clever, like the Parsee?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clever	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 stories	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 stories	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stories	nummod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 character	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 clever	cop
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 clever	advmod
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Parsee	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 Parsee	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Parsee	det
14	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 clever	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which character in the first two stories					like the Parsee; clever property	tree rules

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

The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, who tricked the Whale

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mariner	det
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tricked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mariner	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	13 sagacity	case
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 resource	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 infinite	punct
9	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sagacity	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sagacity	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sagacity	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tricked	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tricked	nsubj
16	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Whale	det
18	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	the Mariner	the Whale					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Rhino, a beast of little sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rhino	det
2	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beast	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beast	det
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rhino	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sense	case
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sense	amod
8	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beast	nmod

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

Option 3

The Djinn, a man of great sagacity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Djinn	det
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Djinn	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sagacity	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sagacity	amod
8	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mariner	det
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mariner	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	13 sagacity	case
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 resource	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 infinite	punct
9	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sagacity	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sagacity	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sagacity	cc
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod

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

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