Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots. Which pattern did that leave him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, big spots, pattern · What happens: not want, look, leave · To what, where: big spots, ★
This is test 16 · ★★ 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 Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 want | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 Leopard | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Leopard | det |
| 5 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 want | advmod |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 Zebra | case |
| 12 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Giraffe | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 Giraffe | cc |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 Giraffe | case |
| 16 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obl |
| 17 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 big | mark |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 big | punct |
| 19 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 big | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 vulgar | punct |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spots | amod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 big | punct |
| 23 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 want | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | ★ ★ the Leopard | big spots | like Giraffe | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | big spots not said here | like Zebra | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Which pattern did that leave him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 pattern | det |
| 2 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | which pattern | ★ | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Large spots far apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spots | amod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 apart | advmod |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 spots | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Small spots close together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spots | amod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 close | nsubj |
| 3 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 close | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | Small spots | together property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Spots like the Zebra's stripes but made into small round blotches all over his body and tail
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 stripes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Zebra | det |
| 4 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stripes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Zebra | case |
| 6 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spots | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 blotches | case |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blotches | amod |
| 11 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blotches | amod |
| 12 | blotches | blotch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 body | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blotches | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tail | cc |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 body | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle · passive | Spots like the Zebra's stripes | small round blotches over Zebra's body and tail | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into blotch=Product |
Option 4
Spots like the Giraffe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 Giraffe | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Giraffe | det |
| 4 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Spots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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