Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

The Leopard story had a puzzle-word, "spots". What is Kipling's word game in "satiable curtiosity"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leopard story · What happens: have, be · To what, where: puzzle word, word game, satiable curtiosity

This is test 9 · ★ 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: The Leopard story had a puzzle-word, "spots".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	compound
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 puzzle	punct
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spots	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spots	punct
11	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 word	appos
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 spots	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Leopard story	a puzzle word					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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: What is Kipling's word game in "satiable curtiosity"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 game	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 game	cop
3	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 game	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kipling	case
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 curtiosity	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 curtiosity	punct
9	satiable	satiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 curtiosity	amod
10	curtiosity	curtiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 curtiosity	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 game	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Kipling's word game		satiable curtiosity			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Baby	punct
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 curiosity	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct
6	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curiosity	amod
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct

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

Option 2

Baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity", a sort of puzzle-word with the sound of the Leopard story's spots

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Baby	punct
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 curiosity	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct
6	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curiosity	amod
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sort	det
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 word	case
13	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 puzzle	punct
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sort	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 sound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 spots	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
21	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 story	compound
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spots	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 story	case
24	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			puzzle word with the sound of the Leopard story's spots					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Baby-talk for "insatiable curiosity", which Kipling used to make the child sound young and silly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Baby	punct
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 curiosity	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct
6	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curiosity	amod
7	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 curiosity	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 used	obj
11	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sound	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 silly	cc
20	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 young	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	Kipling	Baby talk for insatiable curiosity		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	Kipling not said here	the child		tree rules
3	sound	infinitive	the child not said here		young property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Baby-talk for insatiable sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Baby	punct
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sadness	case
5	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sadness	amod
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	nmod

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

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