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Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

The Mariner in the Whale story was "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity". Which is true of the Elephant's Child so far?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mariner · What happens: be · To what, where: man

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 79 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» 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 Mariner in the Whale story was "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mariner	det
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 man	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	compound
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mariner	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 resource	case
12	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 resource	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 infinite	punct
14	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sagacity	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sagacity	cc
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 resource	appos
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sagacity	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the Mariner in the Whale story	a man				of infinite resource	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: Which is true of the Elephant's Child so far?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elephant	det
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Child	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Elephant	case
8	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 far	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 true	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of the Elephant's Child; far, true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He is bold and rude but never curious

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	3 bold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bold	cop
3	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rude	cc
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bold	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 curious	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 curious	advmod
8	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					bold property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules
3	not be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 2

He is curious and polite but too trusting, and he will never learn from his mistakes at all

The tree, 18 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	3 curious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 polite	cc
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curious	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 trusting	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 trusting	advmod
8	trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 curious	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 learn	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 learn	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 learn	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 learn	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 learn	advmod
14	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 curious	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 mistakes	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mistakes	nmod:poss
17	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 learn	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					curious property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules
3	trust	gerund	He not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not learn	future	he			his mistakes		at all	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from mistake=Source
5	mistake		his = he						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He is curious and polite but too trusting

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	3 curious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 polite	cc
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 curious	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 trusting	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 trusting	advmod
8	trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 curious	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					curious property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules
3	trust	gerund	He not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is greedy and selfish but very kind

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	3 greedy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 selfish	cc
5	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 greedy	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 kind	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greedy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					greedy property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

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