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Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

Lola, Australia: "The Leopard and that bloke were starvin', reckon they'd eat a servo pie." ("servo" = petrol station.) What did they really eat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lola, Leopard · What happens: starvin, eat, do · To what, where: servo pie

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Lola, Australia: "The Leopard and that bloke were starvin', reckon they'd eat a servo pie."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lola	Lola	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 starvin	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Australia	punct
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lola	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 starvin	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 starvin	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Leopard	det
7	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 starvin	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bloke	cc
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bloke	det
10	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Leopard	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 starvin	aux
12	starvin	starvin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 eat	advcl
13	',	',	PUNCT	_	12 starvin	punct
14	reckon	reckon	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
16	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pie	det
19	servo	servo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pie	compound
20	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starvin in a quote	past · progressive	Lola and Australia						tree rules
2	eat in a quote	would · present	Leopard	a servo pie					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=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: ("servo" = petrol station.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 servo	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 servo	punct
3	servo	servo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 servo	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	7 station	punct
6	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 station	compound
7	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 servo	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 servo	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 servo	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What did they really eat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	Lola						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Every fish in the whole sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sea	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rats, beetles and rock-rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beetles	punct
3	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rabbits	cc
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rabbits	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rock	punct
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Thorns and milkweed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 milkweed	cc
3	milkweed	milkweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thorns	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A cake as big as a table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 big	obl

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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