Test 7 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

True or false: real leopards have groups of exactly five spots, made by fingertips.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: real leopards · What happens: have, make · To what, where: groups, five spots

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leopards	amod
6	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
8	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 spots	case
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 five	advmod
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 spots	nummod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 groups	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 spots	acl
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 fingertips	case
16	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	real leopards	groups of five spots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Patient
2	make	participle		five spots not said here				by fingertips	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

True: they get them later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	they	True				late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

False: they have rosettes, and they are born with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 born	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 born	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 born	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 born	aux:pass
10	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 have	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	rosettes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosette=Patient
2	bear	present · passive		rosettes = rosette				with them = they	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

True: a leopard's spots are made by a hunter's fingers when he is grown, and each group has exactly five marks

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leopard	det
4	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spots	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 leopard	case
6	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 True	parataxis
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 fingers	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fingers	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 hunter	case
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 grown	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grown	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grown	aux:pass
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 group	det
21	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 five	advmod
24	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 marks	nummod
25	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present · passive	a hunter's fingers	a leopard's spots	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
2	grow	present · passive		leopard	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	present	each group	five marks	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient

Option 4

False: they have blotches, and they grow them with age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	blotches	blotch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grow	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grow	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 age	case
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	blotches					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blotch=Patient
2	grow	present	blotches = blotch	them = they			with age		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with age=Instrument

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