Test 2 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

Priya, India: "Kindly do the needful and tell what is 'Vantage number two." ("do the needful" = do what is needed.)

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya, you · What happens: do, tell, be, need · To what, where: needful, Vantage number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Priya, India: "Kindly do the needful and tell what is 'Vantage number two."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 India	punct
3	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Priya	conj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
6	Kindly	kindly	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 needful	det
9	needful	needful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 number	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 number	cop
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 number	punct
15	Vantage	vantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 number	compound
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 number	nummod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	Priya and India not said here	the needful	kindly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needful=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Priya and India			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		Vantage number		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: ("do the needful" = do what is needed.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 needful	det
5	needful	needful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
7	=	=	SYM	_	11 needed	punct
8	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 needed	aux
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 needed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 needed	aux:pass
11	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 do	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the needful					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needful=Eventuality
2	need	infinitive · passive · do-support							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Plucking grass and eating it, after the Snake showed him how to do it at the river

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 showed	csubj
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plucking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eating	cc
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Plucking	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showed	punct
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 showed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Snake	det
9	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 do	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 showed	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	pluck	gerund		grass			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	eat	gerund		grass			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	show	past	the Snake		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	to-infinitive		Snake		the river	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Plucking grass and eating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plucking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eating	cc
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Plucking	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	gerund		grass					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	eat	gerund		grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Plucking grass and eating it, then dusting it against his fore-legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plucking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eating	cc
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Plucking	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dusting	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 dusting	advmod
8	dusting	dust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Plucking	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dusting	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	14 legs	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
12	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 legs	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fore	punct
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dusting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pluck	gerund	grass			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	eat	gerund	grass			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	dust	gerund	grass	his fore legs	then	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against leg=Destination

Option 4

Swatting a fly with his trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swatting	swat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fly	det
3	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swatting	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 trunk	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trunk	nmod:poss
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swat	gerund		a fly				with fly's trunk	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fly=Patient with trunk=Instrument

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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