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

What would have happened if the Rhino had kept his skin on in the heat wave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, keep on · To what, where: Rhino, heat wave

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rhino	det
7	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	9 kept	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 wave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wave	det
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wave	compound
16	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep on a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the Rhino		the heat wave			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme skin=Attribute

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 right answer

The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parsee	det
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 filled	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 filled	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 filled	aux
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 filled	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 crumbs	case
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 filled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fill	could · perfect · passive		the Parsee				with crumbs	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Rhino would have been cool

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	6 cool	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cool	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 cool	cop
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	the Rhino					cool property	tree rules

Option 3

The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs and so had no trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parsee	det
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 filled	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 filled	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 filled	aux
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 filled	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 crumbs	case
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 filled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 filled	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 trick	det
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fill	could · perfect · passive		the Parsee				with crumbs	tree rules
2	have	past		no trick					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient

Option 4

The Parsee would not have found it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parsee	det
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 found	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	aux
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	would · perfect · passive		the Parsee					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute

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