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Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

Older cousin: "Kipling says ten million serving-men, seven million Whys. That's her, our Ellie, never stops asking." What are the "serving-men" really?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Older cousin, That, serving men · What happens: say, be, not stop, ask · To what, where: million serving men, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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: Older cousin: "Kipling says ten million serving-men, seven million Whys.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 cousin	amod
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 million	compound
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
9	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 men	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 serving	punct
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Whys	punct
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 million	compound
14	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Whys	nummod
15	Whys	why	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 men	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Older cousin	million serving men and million Whys					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic

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: That's her, our Ellie, never stops asking."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 her	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 her	cop
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stops	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ellie	punct
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Ellie	nmod:poss
6	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 her	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stops	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 stops	advmod
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stops	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stops	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	cousin					tree rules
2	not stop	present							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What are the "serving-men" really?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct
5	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 serving	punct
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 What	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct
9	really	really	ADV	_	7 men	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the serving men						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Serving-men of Kipling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 men	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Serving	punct
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Kipling	case
5	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	gerund							vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Helpful friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Question words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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