Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

★★★ Trap: the story says the animals could "very seldom" be seen in the forest. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: say, see, be · To what, where: animals, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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: ★★★ Trap: the story says the animals could "very seldom" be seen in the forest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	nsubj
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Trap	compound
4	Trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Trap	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seen	nsubj:pass
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 seldom	punct
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 seldom	advmod
14	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 seldom	punct
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 seen	aux:pass
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 says	ccomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Trap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	could · passive		the animals		the forest		seldom property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They could be seen sometimes, if you knew precisely where to look

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	4 seen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux:pass
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 seen	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
10	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	9 knew	advmod
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 look	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		They	sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	you		precisely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

They could be seen easily, but only at night

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	4 seen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux:pass
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 night	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		They			night	easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

They could never be seen at all, not even by daylight

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 seen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 seen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 daylight	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 daylight	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	12 daylight	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 daylight	case
12	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could · passive	daylight	They		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They could only be seen by Baviaan the Baboon

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 seen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux:pass
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Baviaan	case
7	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Baboon	det
9	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Baviaan	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive	Baviaan	They					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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