Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…

★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Kangaroo, pattern, next hop · What happens: go, hop, go on, be · To what, where: one yard

This is test 14 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kangaroo	det
5	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hops	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Kangaroo	case
7	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 yard	nummod
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yards	punct
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 yards	nummod
13	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 yard	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yards	punct
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 yards	nummod
16	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 yard	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	★	one yard and three yards and five yards					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme
2	hop		the Kangaroo						nom hop «act 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.

Sentence 2: If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pattern	det
3	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 be	advcl
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 be	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hop	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hop	amod
12	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 be	nsubj
13	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 be	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on a condition, not said to happen	past	the pattern						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	would	the next hop					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Seven feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 feet	nummod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Seven yards, then nine, then eleven, growing without end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nine	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 nine	advmod
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eleven	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 eleven	advmod
8	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nine	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 growing	punct
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 yards	conj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 end	case
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund					without end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Seven yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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