Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

Why did the Elephant's Child go "out of his way" to spank a Hippopotamus?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Child · What happens: go, spank · To what, where: way, Hippopotamus

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elephant	det
4	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Child	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Elephant	case
6	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 way	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 spank	mark
15	spank	spank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Hippopotamus	det
17	Hippopotamus	Hippopotamus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 spank	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Elephant's Child			Child's way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out way=Initial_Location
2	spank	to-infinitive	the Elephant's Child not said here	a Hippopotamus					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hippopotamus=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.

The options

Option 1

To look for the Kolokolo Bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 Bird	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
5	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bird	compound
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						for the Kolokolo Bird	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme

Option 2

To check if the Snake was right about his trunk, because the Hippo had been very rude about it

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 right	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snake	det
5	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 right	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trunk	nmod:poss
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rude	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 rude	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hippo	det
14	Hippo	Hippo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 rude	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rude	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 rude	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 rude	advmod
18	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 right	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Snake	about Snake's trunk; right property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	the Hippo	about trunk; rude property	tree rules

Option 3

To check if the Snake was right about his trunk, and to see if the Hippo would spank him back

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 right	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snake	det
5	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 right	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trunk	nmod:poss
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 check	conj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 spank	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Hippo	det
17	Hippo	Hippo	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 spank	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 spank	aux
19	spank	spank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spank	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 spank	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Snake		about Snake's trunk; right property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	spank back a condition, not said to happen	would	the Hippo	Snake		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To check if the Snake was right about his trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 right	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snake	det
5	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 right	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trunk	nmod:poss
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Snake					about Snake's trunk; right property	tree rules

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