Test 4 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

True or false: the Elephant's Child knew what a Crocodile looked like before his trip.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Child, Crocodile · What happens: know, look, trip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 false	cc
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
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	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 looked	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Crocodile	det
12	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	ccomp
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 trip	case
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 trip	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 trip	nmod:poss
17	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Elephant's Child		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	past	a Crocodile	like Crocodile's trip	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute
3	trip		Crocodile		nom trip «act transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

False: he had never seen one and did not know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seen	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 seen	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	he	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support	he not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

True: he had seen one on his trip to the river before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 True	parataxis
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seen	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 trip	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trip	nmod:poss
9	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trip	nmod
13	before	before	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	he	one		his trip to the river		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	trip		his = he					to the river	nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 3

True: he had seen one many times near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 times	amod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

True: he had seen a Crocodile lots of times at home by the big river and knew it well

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 True	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lots	det
7	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lots	compound
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 times	case
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lots	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lots	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seen	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knew	cc
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	obj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	he	a Crocodile lots of times		home		by the big river	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus
2	know	past	he not said here	river				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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