Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
Old Texas rancher: "Them critters skedaddled to the woods, and that big cat was plumb out of luck." ("skedaddled" = ran off, "plumb" = totally.) Which animal led them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Old Texas rancher, big cat, animal · What happens: skedaddle, be, run off, lead · To what, where: woods, luck, plumb, critters
This is test 13 · ★ 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: Old Texas rancher: "Them critters skedaddled to the woods, and that big cat was plumb out of luck."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rancher | amod |
| 2 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rancher | compound |
| 3 | rancher | rancher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skedaddled | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 skedaddled | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 skedaddled | punct |
| 6 | Them | them | DET | PronType=Dem | 7 critters | det |
| 7 | critters | critter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 skedaddled | nsubj |
| 8 | skedaddled | skedaddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 skedaddled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plumb | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plumb | cc |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 cat | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cat | amod |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plumb | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 plumb | cop |
| 18 | plumb | plumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skedaddled | parataxis |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 luck | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 luck | case |
| 21 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plumb | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 plumb | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 skedaddled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skedaddle in a quote | past | Old Texas rancher | the woods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | that big cat | luck | plumb 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: ("skedaddled" = ran off, "plumb" = totally.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 skedaddled | punct |
| 3 | skedaddled | skedaddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ran | advcl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 skedaddled | punct |
| 5 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 ran | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plumb | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 plumb | punct |
| 10 | plumb | plumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 plumb | punct |
| 12 | = | = | SYM | _ | 13 totally | punct |
| 13 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skedaddle in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | run off | past | plumb | totally property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: Which animal led them?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | which animal | critters = critter | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The striped Zebra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Zebra | det |
| 2 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Zebra | amod |
| 3 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The big Eland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eland | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Eland | amod |
| 3 | Eland | Eland | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Koodoo with wavy lines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Koodoo | det |
| 2 | Koodoo | Koodoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lines | case |
| 4 | wavy | wavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lines | amod |
| 5 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Koodoo | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Giraffe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Giraffe | det |
| 2 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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