Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

In the Camel story, the Horse, Dog and Ox each came and spoke to the Camel in turn. Who comes to the Elephant's Child in turn with spanks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Horse · What happens: come, speak · To what, where: Camel story, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: In the Camel story, the Horse, Dog and Ox each came and spoke to the Camel in turn.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Horse	det
7	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Dog	punct
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Horse	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Ox	cc
11	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Horse	conj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Ox	nmod:unmarked
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spoke	cc
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Camel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Camel	det
18	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 turn	case
20	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Horse and Dog and Ox each			the Camel story			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location
2	speak speech: other	past	the Horse and Dog and Ox each not said here			turn		to the Camel	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to camel=Co-Agent

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: Who comes to the Elephant's Child in turn with spanks?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 Child	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Elephant	det
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Child	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Elephant	case
7	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 turn	case
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Child	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 spanks	case
11	spanks	spank	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present						to the Elephant's Child in turn with spanks	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

His aunts and uncles, one after another, plus the Python and Crocodile too at the river

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunts	nmod:poss
2	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 uncles	cc
4	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 aunts	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 aunts	appos
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 river	punct
10	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	18 river	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Python	det
12	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 river	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Crocodile	cc
14	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Python	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	18 river	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aunts	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His aunts and uncles, one after another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunts	nmod:poss
2	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 uncles	cc
4	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 aunts	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 aunts	appos
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The Python, the Crocodile and Baboon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Python	det
2	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Crocodile	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Crocodile	det
5	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Python	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Baboon	cc
7	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Python	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His aunts and uncles, one after another, all in one big spanking party at home before dinner

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunts	nmod:poss
2	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 all	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 uncles	cc
4	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 aunts	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 aunts	appos
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 party	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 party	nummod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 party	amod
14	spanking	spanking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 party	compound
15	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 party	nmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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