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Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

Kayden, Gen Alpha: "Leopard said he remembers the zebra's height cos of the marrow-bones, that's sus." ("sus" = suspicious, odd.) Why does he remember them so well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leopard, that, sus · What happens: say, remember, be · To what, where: height cos, bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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: Kayden, Gen Alpha: "Leopard said he remembers the zebra's height cos of the marrow-bones, that's sus."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kayden	Kayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Alpha	punct
3	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Alpha	compound
4	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kayden	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Kayden	parataxis
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remembers	nsubj
10	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 zebra	det
12	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cos	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 zebra	case
14	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cos	compound
15	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remembers	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 bones	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bones	det
18	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bones	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 marrow	punct
20	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cos	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sus	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 sus	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sus	cop
24	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kayden	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 sus	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Leopard						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	remember in a quote	present	Leopard	the zebra's height cos of the marrow bones					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cos=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	that					suspect property	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: ("sus" = suspicious, odd.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 suspicious	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sus	punct
3	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suspicious	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sus	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 suspicious	punct
6	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 odd	punct
8	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 suspicious	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 suspicious	punct
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 suspicious	punct

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

Sentence 3: Why does he remember them so well?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 remember	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 remember	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present · do-support	sus	bones = bone				well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He measured them for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	nsubj
2	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	He	them = they				for fun	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value

Option 2

They were his best friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 friends	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his best friends					tree rules

Option 3

Baviaan had told him all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Baviaan		all				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He used to hunt and eat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hunt	mark
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hunt	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	infinitive	He not said here	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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