Test 3 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leopard · What happens: happen, choose · To what, where: stripes

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 chosen	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Leopard	det
7	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chosen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chosen	aux
9	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
10	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chosen	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Leopard	stripes					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He would have been eaten by the hunter for breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hunter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunter	det
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 breakfast	case
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · perfect · passive	the hunter	He				for breakfast	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would have looked like the Zebra, which he did not want

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	aux
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 Zebra	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Zebra	det
7	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 want	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Zebra	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would · perfect	He					like the Zebra	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not want	past · do-support	Zebra	the Zebra					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme

Option 3

He would have looked exactly like the Zebra standing among the thorn-bushes in the sunlight, which he did not want at all, as the hunter had said

The tree, 28 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	aux
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 looked	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 standing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 standing	det
8	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 standing	compound
9	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
10	among	among	ADP	_	14 bushes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bushes	det
12	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bushes	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 thorn	punct
14	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sunlight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunlight	det
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bushes	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 want	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 want	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 want	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 want	advmod
23	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sunlight	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 want	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hunter	det
29	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	would · perfect	He			like the Zebra standing; among the thorn bushes in the sunlight; exactly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among bush=Theme
2	not want	past · do-support	he	the sunlight	all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the hunter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 4

He would have been hunted by every zebra in the veldt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hunted	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hunted	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hunted	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hunted	aux:pass
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 zebra	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 zebra	det
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunted	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 veldt	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 veldt	det
11	veldt	veldt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would · perfect · passive	every zebra	He		the veldt			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in veldt=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/t3/