Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…
Mum, cross: "Where's your breakfast? I'll tell you where, it's in the bin cos you were late." Which animals in the story teased the hunters with "where's your breakfast?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: breakfast, I, you, animals · What happens: be, tell, tease · To what, where: you, bin, hunters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Mum, cross: "Where's your breakfast?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Where | punct |
| 6 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 cross | conj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Where | cop |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Where | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | your breakfast | where property | tree rules |
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: I'll tell you where, it's in the bin cos you were late."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 bin | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 where | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bin | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bin | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bin | det |
| 11 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 12 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 15 late | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 late | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 late | cop |
| 15 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | breakfast | the bin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | late property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Which animals in the story teased the hunters with "where's your breakfast?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teased | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animals | nmod |
| 6 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hunters | det |
| 8 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teased | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 breakfast | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 breakfast | advmod |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 breakfast | cop |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teased | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 teased | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 teased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past | which animals in the story | the hunters | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | with your breakfast | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Baboon and the Camel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Baboon | det |
| 2 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Camel | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Camel | det |
| 5 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Baboon | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Rhino and the Whale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rhino | det |
| 2 | Rhino | Rhino | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Whale | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Whale | det |
| 5 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rhino | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Zebra and the Giraffe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Zebra | det |
| 2 | Zebra | Zebra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Giraffe | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Giraffe | det |
| 5 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zebra | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Leopard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Leopard | det |
| 2 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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