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Test 9 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu…

★ Kipling's Stone Age names describe the person, like Tegumai's «Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry». What would a Stone Age name for a boy who is always hungry look like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Age names, ★, boy · What happens: describe, do, not put, name, be, look · To what, where: person, foot

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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's Stone Age names describe the person, like Tegumai's «Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 names	nmod:poss
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	flat
3	's	's	PART	_	1 ★	case
4	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Age	compound
5	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 names	compound
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Man	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 Man	case
12	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Man	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Tegumai	case
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 Man	punct
15	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Man	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 Man	nmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 who	punct
19	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 who	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 does	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 put	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 not	punct
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 does	advcl
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 foot	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 foot	nmod:poss
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 foot	punct
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 hurry	punct
29	forward	forward	ADV	_	35 hurry	advmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 hurry	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 hurry	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 in	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hurry	det
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 a	punct
35	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	appos
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 hurry	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	★'s Age names	the person				like Tegumai's Man	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	do in a quote	present	★'s Age names not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not put in a quote	infinitive	★'s Age names not said here	Man's foot					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal
4	name		★						nom name «communication transitive»: 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.

Sentence 2: What would a Stone Age name for a boy who is always hungry look like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 name	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 name	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 name	det
4	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Age	compound
5	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 name	compound
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hungry	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 hungry	advmod
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	acl:relcl
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hungry	ccomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	14 look	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a boy					always, hungry property	tree rules
2	look	infinitive	a boy not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Hungry Boy Smith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Boy	amod
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Boy	flat

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Boy-who-is-always-hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Boy	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hungry	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 who	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hungry	cop
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 always	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 hungry	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 always	punct
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Boy	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Boy					always, hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Mr Always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Mr	advmod

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

Option 4

Boy 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Boy	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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