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Test 11 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

★★★ Kipling writes «the Djinn in charge of All Deserts» with capitals. What does that do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, that · What happens: write, charge, do · To what, where: Deserts

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language 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: ★★★ Kipling writes «the Djinn in charge of All Deserts» with capitals.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 writes	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Kipling	case
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	nmod
5	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 charge	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Djinn	det
8	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 charge	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 charge	case
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 writes	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Deserts	case
12	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 Deserts	det
13	Deserts	Desert	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 charge	nmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 charge	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 capitals	case
16	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 writes	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	★ ★ Kipling					with capitals	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	charge in a quote			all Deserts					nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient

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 does that do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	that						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It makes the title sound grand and important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 title	det
4	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 important	cc
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the title					tree rules
2	sound	infinitive	the title not said here					grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It shows where a new sentence begins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 begins	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sentence	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sentence	amod
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begins	nsubj
7	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	begin	present	a new sentence						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It is a mistake by the printer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mistake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 printer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 printer	det
7	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a mistake				by the printer	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It shows that the words are being shouted loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 shouted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shouted	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	aux:pass
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 shouted	aux:pass
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shows	ccomp
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shout speech: express	present · passive		the words				loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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