Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…
Sipho, South Africa: "The Limpopo? That's lekker far from Graham's Town, hey." ("lekker" = really, very.) Which way did the Elephant's Child walk?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: way · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: lekker
This is test 12 · ★ 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: Sipho, South Africa: "The Limpopo?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sipho | Sipho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Africa | punct |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Africa | compound |
| 4 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sipho | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Limpopo | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Limpopo | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Limpopo | det |
| 8 | Limpopo | Limpopo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sipho | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sipho | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: That's lekker far from Graham's Town, hey."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lekker | det |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lekker | cop |
| 3 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Town | nsubj |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 Town | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Town | case |
| 6 | Graham | Graham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Town | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Graham | case |
| 8 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hey | punct |
| 10 | hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 8 Town | discourse |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Town | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Town | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that lekker | tree rules |
Sentence 3: ("lekker" = really, very.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 lekker | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lekker | punct |
| 3 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lekker | punct |
| 5 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 really | punct |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 lekker | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 very | punct |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 really | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lekker | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 lekker | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: Which way did the Elephant's Child walk?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walk | aux |
| 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 | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 8 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 walk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · do-support | which way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Straight to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 sea | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Up the river only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 river | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
From Graham's Town to Kimberley to Khama's Country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 Town | case |
| 2 | Graham | Graham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Graham | case |
| 4 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Kimberley | case |
| 6 | Kimberley | Kimberley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Country | case |
| 8 | Khama | Khama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Khama | case |
| 10 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kimberley | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
From Johannesburg to Durban and back again to home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 Johannesburg | case |
| 2 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Durban | case |
| 4 | Durban | Durban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Johannesburg | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 back | cc |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 back | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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