Test 16 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…
★★★ Spankers before the trip: his father, his mother, the Ostrich, the Giraffe, the Hippopotamus and the Baboon. Which of the four options is NOT one of his aunts or uncles?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: one
This is test 16 · ★ 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: ★★★ Spankers before the trip: his father, his mother, the Ostrich, the Giraffe, the Hippopotamus and the Baboon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spankers | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Spankers | nsubj |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Spankers | case |
| 4 | Spankers | spanker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 trip | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trip | det |
| 7 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Spankers | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Ostrich | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mother | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ostrich | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ostrich | det |
| 16 | Ostrich | Ostrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spankers | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Giraffe | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Giraffe | det |
| 19 | Giraffe | Giraffe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ostrich | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hippopotamus | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Hippopotamus | det |
| 22 | Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ostrich | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Baboon | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Baboon | det |
| 25 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ostrich | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Spankers | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which of the four options is NOT one of his aunts or uncles?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 one | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 options | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 options | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 options | nummod |
| 5 | options | option | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Which | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 7 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 aunts | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 aunts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 uncles | cc |
| 13 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 aunts | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | one | of ★'s aunts or uncles | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hippopotamus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hippopotamus | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His mother
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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ostrich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Giraffe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | 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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