Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time. If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, fingers, many marks · What happens: make, press, not slip, be · To what, where: five little black marks, hand

This is test 14 · ★★ 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: ★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	7 fingers	case
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunter	det
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fingers	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hunter	case
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ★	nmod
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 marks	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 marks	nummod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marks	amod
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 marks	amod
13	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marks	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	★	five little black marks and each time					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 pressed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Leopard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Leopard	det
8	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	obl
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pressed	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slipped	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fingers	det
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slipped	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 slipped	advmod
15	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 marks	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 marks	amod
19	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 be	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 be	advmod
22	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 slipped	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	★	★'s hand		time	on the Leopard	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	not slip	past	the fingers					tree rules
3	be	would	many marks		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Fifty-five marks, if one more was added by the hunter's thumb

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 marks	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Fifty	conj
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 added	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 added	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 more	nummod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 added	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 added	aux:pass
10	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 marks	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 thumb	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunter	det
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thumb	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 hunter	case
15	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 added	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past · passive	the hunter's thumb	one more					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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