Test 6 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…
Big bro, rough: "Seventeen melons, a hundred pounds of bananas? He's a proper greedy guts, that one." Why did he take so much food?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: He · What happens: be, take · To what, where: proper greedy guts, much food
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Big bro, rough: "Seventeen melons, a hundred pounds of bananas?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bro | amod |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rough | punct |
| 4 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bro | amod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 melons | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 melons | punct |
| 7 | Seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 melons | nummod |
| 8 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bro | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pounds | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pounds | nummod |
| 12 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 melons | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bananas | case |
| 14 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pounds | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bro | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: He's a proper greedy guts, that one."
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 | 6 guts | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guts | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guts | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guts | amod |
| 5 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guts | amod |
| 6 | guts | gut | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guts | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 guts | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 guts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a proper greedy guts | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Why did he take so much food?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | he | much food | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It was a long journey across Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a long journey | Africa | tree rules |
Option 2
It was a long journey across Africa, but his aunts said he could not take any food at all with him
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 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 | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | parataxis |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 food | det |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a long journey | Africa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Africa's aunts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not take | could | Africa | any food | all | with him = he | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme at all=Asset |
Option 3
He was hungry
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 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 4
It was a long journey across Africa, and he wanted to share the food with all of the Crocodiles he met
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 share | mark |
| 13 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 food | det |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 share | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 share | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Crocodiles | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Crocodiles | det |
| 20 | Crocodiles | Crocodile | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 all | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a long journey | Africa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | past | Africa | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | Africa not said here | the food | with all | tree rules | |||
| 4 | meet | past | Africa | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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