Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who was never touched by the Elephant's Child in his spanking spree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Child · What happens: look back, not touch, spree · To what, where: Child

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Child	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 Child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Elephant	det
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Child	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Elephant	case
8	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 touched	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 touched	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 touched	aux:pass
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 touched	advmod
13	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Child	acl:relcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 Child	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Elephant	det
16	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Child	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Elephant	case
18	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 spree	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 spree	nmod:poss
21	spanking	spanking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spree	compound
22	spree	spree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Child	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in the Elephant's Child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in child=Theme
2	not touch	past · passive	the Elephant's Child in Child's spanking spree	the Elephant's Child		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	spree		Child			nom spree «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Giraffe

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

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

Option 2

The Ostrich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ostrich	det
2	Ostrich	Ostrich	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Baboon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Baboon	det
2	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kolokolo Bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kolokolo	flat

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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