Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched". How many of these shadow words are there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many · What happens: speckle, sprottl, spottl, dot, splash, slash
This is test 16 · ★ 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: ★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 aloud | punct |
| 5 | Say | say | INTJ | _ | 8 aloud | discourse |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 aloud | nsubj |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 aloud | advmod |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 3 ★ | advmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 aloud | punct |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 speckled | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 speckled | punct |
| 12 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sprottled | cc |
| 14 | sprottled | sprottl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 speckled | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spottled | cc |
| 16 | spottled | spottl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 speckled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dotted | punct |
| 18 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 speckled | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 splashed | cc |
| 20 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dotted | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slashed | cc |
| 22 | slashed | slash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 speckled | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hatched | cc |
| 24 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 slashed | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cross-hatched | cc |
| 26 | cross-hatched | cross-hatched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hatched | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 hatched | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speckle in a quote | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sprottl in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spottl in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | dot in a quote | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | splash in a quote | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | slash in a quote | participle | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | hatch in a quote | participle | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
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: How many of these shadow words are there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 there | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | compound |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 many | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | many of this shadow words | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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