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Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

★★★ Trap in the wording: in the heat wave "everybody took off all the clothes they had". What did the Parsee take off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heat wave, clothes, Parsee · What happens: take off, have · To what, where: clothes

This is test 16 · ★ 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: ★★★ Trap in the wording: in the heat wave "everybody took off all the clothes they had".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	nsubj
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	compound
4	Trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wording	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wording	det
7	wording	wording	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 wave	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 wave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wave	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wave	compound
12	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wave	punct
14	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Trap	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 clothes	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clothes	det
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 took	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clothes	acl:relcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Trap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off in a quote	past	the heat wave	all clothes					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	have in a quote	past	clothes	all clothes not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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.

Sentence 2: What did the Parsee take off?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 take	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Parsee	det
4	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past · do-support	the Parsee						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1

His shirt and his knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shirt	nmod:poss
2	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 knife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knife	nmod:poss
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shirt	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only his hat, since it was all he wore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 hat	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hat	nmod:poss
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 all	punct
5	since	since	ADP	_	8 all	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hat	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wore	nsubj
10	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His hat, his knife, his cooking-stove and his boots, all of them at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knife	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knife	nmod:poss
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stove	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stove	nmod:poss
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stove	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 cooking	punct
10	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 boots	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boots	nmod:poss
13	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hat	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hat	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 all	nmod

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

Option 4

Only his hat, since it was all he wore, and his knife too

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 hat	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hat	nmod:poss
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 all	punct
5	since	since	ADP	_	8 all	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hat	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wore	nsubj
10	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knife	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knife	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 knife	nmod:poss
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hat	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 knife	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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