Test 8 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old…

In which TWO stories so far did the animal ask for his change himself?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: ask, change

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	obl
3	TWO	two	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stories	nmod:poss
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ask	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 change	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 change	nmod:poss
13	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 change	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · do-support	the animal					for animal's change animal	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	change		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

The Elephant's Child and the Giraffe, who both begged for their changes

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	11 begged	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Giraffe	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giraffe	det
7	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Child	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 begged	nsubj
10	both	both	ADV	_	11 begged	advmod
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 changes	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 changes	nmod:poss
14	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Elephant's Child and the Giraffe					for Child's changes; both property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for change=Topic
2	change		Child						nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The Whale and the Leopard, who asked the gods to change them for their own good

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 asked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Leopard	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Leopard	det
5	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Whale	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gods	det
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 change	mark
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 change	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 good	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 good	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 good	amod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Whale and the Leopard		the gods				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Whale and the Leopard not said here	gods = god				for Whale's own good	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for good=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Camel and the Elephant's Child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Child	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Elephant	det
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Child	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Elephant	case
7	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Camel	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Leopard and Old Man Kangaroo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Leopard	det
2	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Kangaroo	cc
4	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kangaroo	amod
5	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Kangaroo	flat
6	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Leopard	conj

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

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