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Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

In the Camel story the animals had to change because they were lazy or greedy. In this story, why do the Giraffe and Zebra change?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: animals · What happens: have, change, be, do · To what, where: Camel story, Giraffe change, story

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 77 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 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: In the Camel story the animals had to change because they were lazy or greedy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 change	mark
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 lazy	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lazy	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lazy	cop
13	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 change	ccomp
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 greedy	cc
15	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lazy	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the animals			the Camel story			tree rules
2	change	to-infinitive	the animals not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	animals = animal					lazy property	tree rules
4	be		animals = animal not said here						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.

Sentence 2: In this story, why do the Giraffe and Zebra change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 change	det
8	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 change	compound
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Zebra	cc
10	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Giraffe	conj
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Giraffe change		this story			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Because they stole a cake from a Parsee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 stole	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Parsee	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Parsee	det
8	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	they	a cake		a Parsee			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from parsee=Source

Option 2

Because they asked too many questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 asked	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	they	many questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To hide from the animals that hunted them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hunted	nsubj
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	acl:relcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive						from the animals	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from animal=Beneficiary
2	hunt	past	the animals	animals = animal					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Because they were idle and would not work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 idle	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 idle	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 idle	cop
4	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 work	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 work	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 work	advmod
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 idle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					idle property	tree rules
2	not work	would	they not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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