Test 11 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
In the Whale story the clever helper was a little fish. Who helps the Leopard by explaining the riddle in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever helper · What happens: be, help, explain · To what, where: little fish, Whale story, Leopard, riddle, end
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 78 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» 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 Whale story the clever helper was a little fish.
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 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 helper | det |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 helper | amod |
| 7 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fish | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fish | amod |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the clever helper | a little fish | the Whale story | tree rules |
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: Who helps the Leopard by explaining the riddle in the end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Leopard | det |
| 4 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 explaining | mark |
| 6 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 helps | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 riddle | det |
| 8 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 explaining | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 explaining | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | the Leopard | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leopard=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | the riddle | in the end | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Baboon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Baboon | det |
| 2 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Tortoise who lived by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tortoise | det |
| 2 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tortoise | acl:relcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Tortoise | by the river | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
Option 3
The little fish from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The hunter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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