Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

Ben, Canada: "Crocodile's a total hoser, eh, but the Python's a beauty." ("hoser" = idiot, "beauty" = a great person.) Who said "Some people do not know what is good for them"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Crocodile, Python, people · What happens: be, say, not know · To what, where: total hoser, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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: Ben, Canada: "Crocodile's a total hoser, eh, but the Python's a beauty."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Canada	punct
3	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hoser	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hoser	punct
6	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hoser	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hoser	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hoser	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hoser	amod
10	hoser	hoser	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eh	punct
12	eh	eh	INTJ	_	10 hoser	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beauty	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 beauty	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Python	det
16	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 beauty	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beauty	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beauty	det
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hoser	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 beauty	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 beauty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Crocodile	a total hoser					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	the Python	a beauty					tree rules

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: ("hoser" = idiot, "beauty" = a great person.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 idiot	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hoser	punct
3	hoser	hoser	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 idiot	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hoser	punct
5	=	=	SYM	_	6 idiot	punct
6	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beauty	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beauty	punct
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 idiot	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 beauty	punct
11	=	=	SYM	_	14 person	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 person	amod
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 idiot	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 idiot	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 idiot	punct

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

Sentence 3: Who said "Some people do not know what is good for them"?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
4	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 good	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	some people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present		for people; good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Baboon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baboon	baboon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Hippo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hippo	det
2	Hippo	Hippo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Python

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Python	det
2	Python	Python	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	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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