Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

What would have happened if the Giraffe and the Zebra had stayed on the bare High Veldt?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giraffe · What happens: happen, stay · To what, where: bare High Veldt

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stayed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giraffe	det
7	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Zebra	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Zebra	det
10	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Giraffe	conj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stayed	aux
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 Veldt	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Veldt	det
15	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Veldt	amod
16	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Veldt	amod
17	Veldt	Veldt	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Giraffe and the Zebra			the bare High Veldt			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on veldt=Location

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.

The options

Option 1

Baviaan would have hidden them under his arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baviaan	Baviaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hidden	aux
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would · perfect · passive		Baviaan		Baviaan's arms			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would have stayed easy to find and catch

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 stayed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	aux
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catch	cc
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 find	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	They	easy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	catch	infinitive	They not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Leopard would have gone to the forest alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	the Leopard			the forest		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would have turned spotty and stripy anyway

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 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	spotty	spotty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stripy	cc
7	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spotty	conj
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	They					anyway, spotty property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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