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title: Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and stat… — Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and state the distance which the swim entails according to the passage. Exam question 3 of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» of the books cou
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# Exam question 3 · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club…

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Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and state the distance which the swim entails according to the passage.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sea lion, distance · **What happens:** identify, direct, state, entail, accord · **To what, where:** location, Kotick, distance

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 617 «Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club a herd of young seals and asks where seals can go to be safe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/617-pg236-part18/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:e3:1
# text = Identify the location to which the sea lion directs Kotick, and state the distance which the swim entails according to the passage.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	directs	direct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	state	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	swim	swim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	entails	entail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **direct** | present | the sea lion | Kotick |  |  |  | to the location | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kotick=Theme |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | infinitive |  | the distance |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent distance=Topic |
| 4 | **entail** |  | the distance |  |  |  |  | accord the passage | tree rules |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Salt House, a distance of four miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:e3:o1:1
# text = The Salt House, a distance of four miles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Salt	Salt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Walrus Islet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:e3:o2:1
# text = Walrus Islet
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Walrus Islet, a distance of six miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:e3:o3:1
# text = Walrus Islet, a distance of six miles
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Walrus Islet, about two miles away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:e3:o4:1
# text = Walrus Islet, about two miles away
1	Walrus	Walrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Islet	Islet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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