Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

True or false: rhinos really can take their skin off and button it back on.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: True rhinos · What happens: take off · To what, where: skin

This is test 5 · ★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhinos	amod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 rhinos	punct
5	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 take	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skin	nmod:poss
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	8 take	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 on	cc
13	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 on	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 on	nsubj
15	back	back	ADV	_	16 on	advmod
16	on	on	ADV	_	8 take	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	can	True rhinos	rhinos's skin					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme

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

False: it is a made-up joke; rhino skin grows on them

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 joke	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 joke	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 joke	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 joke	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 grows	punct
11	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 skin	compound
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joke	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	a False made joke		tree rules
3	grow	present	rhino skin		on them = they	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location

Option 2

True: it is real and they do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 real	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					real property	tree rules
2	do	present	they	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

True, rhinos really can take their skin off and button it back on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhinos	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 skin	nmod:poss
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 button	cc
11	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 on	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	6 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	can	True rhinos	rhinos's skin					tree rules

Option 4

False: they cannot take it off at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take off	can	they	it		all			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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