Test 12 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

Looking back over the book: which animal said «Humph!» and got a hump?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: look back, say, get · To what, where: Humph, hump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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	9 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Humph	punct
11	Humph	Humph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Humph	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 Humph	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hump	det
17	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	which animal not said here		over the book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	which animal	Humph		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent humph=Topic
3	get	past	which animal not said here	a hump		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus

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 Eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Camel

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

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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