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Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

Big sis, sarcastic: "Oh sure, scratching makes an itch go away, genius." What does the story say happened when the Rhino scratched?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big sis, itch, story · What happens: scratch, make, go away, say · To what, where: itch, genius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Big sis, sarcastic: "Oh sure, scratching makes an itch go away, genius."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sarcastic	punct
4	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sis	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 sure	discourse
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scratching	punct
10	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sure	conj
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 itch	det
13	itch	itch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 makes	xcomp
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 genius	punct
17	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch in a quote	gerund	Big sis and sarcastic not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make in a quote	present	Big sis and sarcastic	a itch					tree rules
3	go away in a quote	infinitive	a itch not said here	genius				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What does the story say happened when the Rhino scratched?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 scratched	nsubj:outer
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scratched	aux
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 scratched	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rhino	det
9	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 scratched	nsubj:pass
10	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 scratched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	scratch	past · passive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It made it go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	it					tree rules
2	go away	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It made it worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	it				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

Option 3

It stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

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