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title: yo did Kotick really scream clam-eater at Sea Vitch for like five mi… — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo did Kotick really scream clam-eater at Sea Vitch for like five minutes? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 618 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea Vitch, then searches the seas for a quiet island and finds men had been there first» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
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# Test 1 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea…

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yo did Kotick really scream clam-eater at Sea Vitch for like five minutes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, scream · **To what, where:** Kotick, clam eater, Sea Vitch

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 618 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea Vitch, then searches the seas for a quiet island and finds men had been there first» 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/618-pg236-part19/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t1:1
# text = yo did Kotick really scream clam-eater at Sea Vitch for like five minutes?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Kotick	Kotick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	scream	scream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	clam	clam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Vitch	Vitch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Kotick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | present |  | clam eater |  | Sea Vitch | minute |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic |

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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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nah, just a minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t1:o1:1
# text = nah, just a minute
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, the gulls joined in too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t1:o2:1
# text = fr, the gulls joined in too
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join in** | participle |  | the gulls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the seals joined too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t1:o3:1
# text = yeah, the seals joined too
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | the seals |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the puffins only watched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t1:o4:1
# text = nah, the puffins only watched
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	puffins	puffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | the puffins |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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