Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

Sam, Scouse: "Leopard's spots are boss, la, he can lie on a path an' look like nothin'." ("boss" = great, "la" = mate.) What does the hunter say he can look like on a path?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spots, Sam Scouse, hunter · What happens: be, lie, say, look · To what, where: boss, look, path · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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: Sam, Scouse: "Leopard's spots are boss, la, he can lie on a path an' look like nothin'."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Scouse	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sam	punct
3	Scouse	scouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 boss	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 boss	punct
6	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spots	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Leopard	case
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 boss	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boss	cop
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 la	punct
12	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	10 boss	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 la	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lie	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	aux
16	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 path	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 path	det
19	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	obl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 look	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
22	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 nothin	case
24	nothin	nothin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 look	nmod
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Leopard's spots	boss					tree rules
2	lie in a quote	can	Sam Scouse	a look like nothin		a path			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on path=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: ("boss" = great, "la" = mate.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 boss	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boss	punct
3	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 boss	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 great	punct
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boss	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 la	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 la	punct
9	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boss	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 la	punct
11	=	=	SYM	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boss	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 boss	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 boss	punct

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

Sentence 3: What does the hunter say he can look like on a path?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 look	aux
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	8 look	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the hunter						tree rules
2	look	can	hunter					on a path	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on path=Theme

The options

Option 1

A dry tree stump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stump	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stump	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stump	compound
4	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A pile of leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 leaves	case
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pile	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A bright yellow flower growing beside the path in the sunlight of the late afternoon

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flower	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 flower	acl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sunlight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sunlight	det
11	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 afternoon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 afternoon	det
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 afternoon	amod
15	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sunlight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund	a bright yellow flower not said here			the path		in the sunlight of the late afternoon	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside path=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing in particular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 particular	case
3	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	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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