Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…

Across the six stories, which animal's change is the only one that came from Kipling's idea of hiding in shadows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: change, only one, animal · What happens: be, come, change · To what, where: only one, idea

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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	Across	across	ADP	_	4 stories	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stories	det
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stories	nummod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 animal	det
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 animal	case
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stories	appos
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 idea	case
17	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 idea	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Kipling	case
19	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 hiding	case
21	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 idea	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 shadows	case
23	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hiding	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stories	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	which animal's change	the only one		tree rules
2	come	past	the only one		Kipling's idea of hiding in shadows	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from idea=Initial_Location
3	change		which animal			nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The Elephant's Child, in the Whale story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elephant	det
2	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Elephant	case
4	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 story	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
8	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	compound
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Child	conj

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

Option 2

The Whale and the Camel, both changed by Kipling's shadow ideas in their own stories

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Whale	det
2	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Camel	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Camel	det
5	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Whale	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Whale	punct
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 changed	nsubj
8	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 ideas	case
10	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ideas	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Kipling	case
12	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ideas	compound
13	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 stories	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stories	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stories	amod
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	participle	the Whale and the Camel			Whale's own stories		by Kipling's shadow ideas	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Giraffe and the Zebra, in the Leopard story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giraffe	det
2	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Zebra	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Zebra	det
5	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Giraffe	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 story	compound
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Giraffe	conj

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

Option 4

The Rhinoceros, in the Elephant's Child story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rhinoceros	det
2	Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Rhinoceros	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elephant	det
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Elephant	case
8	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	compound
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rhinoceros	nmod

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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