--- title: bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off? — Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off? Test 8 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/617-pg236-part18/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 18: Kotick sees men club… bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, swim off · **To what, where:** Kotick nap This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t8:1 # text = bro, how long did Kotick nap before swimming off? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 nap nap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | Kotick nap | | | | bro *vocative*; long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Eventuality | | 2 | **swim off** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Half an hour ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t8:o1:1 # text = Half an hour 1 Half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 3 det:predet _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Until the sun went down behind the hills ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t8:o2:1 # text = Until the sun went down behind the hills 1 Until until SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | past | the sun | | | the hills | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind hill=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Until the tide turned ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t8:o3:1 # text = Until the tide turned 1 Until until SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the tide | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} A whole day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:617-pg236-part18:t8:o4:1 # text = A whole day 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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