Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
Baviaan says "go into other spots". What is the double meaning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Baviaan, double meaning · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: other spots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Baviaan says "go into other spots".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baviaan | Baviaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 spots | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spots | amod |
| 7 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Baviaan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | other spots | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spot=Initial_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.
Sentence 2: What is the double meaning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 4 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meaning | amod |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the double meaning | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Other forests, and spots of mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forests | amod |
| 2 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spots | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spots | cc |
| 5 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 forests | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Other places, and spots on your skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 places | amod |
| 2 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spots | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spots | cc |
| 5 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 places | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Other games, and spots on dice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 games | amod |
| 2 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spots | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spots | cc |
| 5 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 games | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 dice | case |
| 7 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Other animals, and little spots of rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 animals | amod |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spots | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spots | cc |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spots | amod |
| 6 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 animals | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rain | case |
| 8 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spots | nmod |
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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