Test 2 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…
Brody, Aussie: "Kangaroo ran from mornin' till the arvo, flat out like a lizard drinkin'." ("flat out like a lizard drinking" = very busy, going hard.) When did it end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brody, drinking · What happens: run, flat out, go, end · To what, where: mornin
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Brody, Aussie: "Kangaroo ran from mornin' till the arvo, flat out like a lizard drinkin'."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brody | Brody | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Aussie | punct |
| 3 | Aussie | Aussie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brody | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | Kangaroo | Kangaroo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 mornin | case |
| 9 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mornin | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 arvo | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 arvo | det |
| 13 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flat | punct |
| 15 | flat | flat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 flat | compound:prt |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 drinkin | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drinkin | det |
| 19 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drinkin | compound |
| 20 | drinkin | drinkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flat | obl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 drinkin | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | Brody Aussie | mornin | till the arvo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mornin=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | flat out in a quote | infinitive | like a lizard drinkin | 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: ("flat out like a lizard drinking" = very busy, going hard.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 flat | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flat | punct |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 busy | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 flat | compound:prt |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 drinking | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drinking | det |
| 7 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drinking | compound |
| 8 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 busy | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 drinking | punct |
| 10 | = | = | SYM | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 busy | advmod |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 busy | advcl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 busy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | hard property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: When did it end?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 end | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 end | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 end | nsubj |
| 4 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · do-support | drinking | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Noon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half past four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 four | det:predet |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 four | amod |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ten o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Five o'clock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 o'clock | nummod |
| 2 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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