Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
In the Camel story the animals held "a palaver" about the idle Camel. In this story, who is asked for advice?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: hold, ask · To what, where: palaver, story
This is test 8 · ★ 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: In the Camel story the animals held "a palaver" about the idle Camel.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 story | nmod |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 animals | acl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 palaver | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palaver | det |
| 10 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 palaver | punct |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 Camel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Camel | det |
| 14 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Camel | amod |
| 15 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palaver | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | the animals not said here | a palaver about the idle Camel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: In this story, who is asked for advice?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | this story | for advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
The Man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Baviaan the Baboon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baviaan | Baviaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baboon | det |
| 3 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Baviaan | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The 'Stute Fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fish | det |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stute | punct |
| 3 | Stute | Stute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fish | compound |
| 4 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Djinn of All Deserts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Djinn | det |
| 2 | Djinn | Djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Deserts | case |
| 4 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Deserts | det |
| 5 | Deserts | Desert | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Djinn | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/t8/