Test 17 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

★★★ «There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them.» What is Kipling's joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hundred stories, this · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: one, joke

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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: ★★★ «There are three hundred and fifty-five stories about Suleiman-bin-Daoud; but this is not one of them.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
5	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 are	expl
6	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 ★	parataxis
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 stories	nummod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 five	cc
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 five	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fifty	punct
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 are	nsubj
14	about	about	ADP	_	19 Daoud	case
15	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Daoud	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Suleiman	punct
17	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Suleiman	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 bin	punct
19	Daoud	Daoud	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stories	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 one	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 are	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 are	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	hundred stories about Suleiman Daoud			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a in a quote	present	this	one				of stories = story	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: What is Kipling's joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 joke	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kipling	case
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Kipling's joke					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He says this story isn't one of the famous ones, because he made it up

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 says	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 ones	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is a	present	this story	one	of the famous ones	tree rules
3	make up	past	he	story		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 2

He says the story is really very old and true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 true	cc
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the story	old property	tree rules
3	be		the story not said here		tree rules

Option 3

A joke about counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 counting	mark
4	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 joke	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund	a joke not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He says there are many stories, but this one is the only true one of all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stories	amod
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 are	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 one	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does	present	many stories		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	this one	the only true one		of all	tree rules

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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