--- title: lowkey, was Kotick a regular seal or was he different? — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics description: lowkey, was Kotick a regular seal or was he different? Test 6 · ★ 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 dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/618-pg236-part19/t6/) [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/) / [The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/618-pg236-part19/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 19: Kotick mocks Sea… lowkey, was Kotick a regular seal or was he different? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey, Kotick · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** regular seal This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t6:1 # text = lowkey, was Kotick a regular seal or was he different? 1 lowkey lowkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 Kotick Kotick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | lowkey | a regular seal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Kotick | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | 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} he was a grey seal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t6:o1:1 # text = he was a grey seal 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | he | a grey seal | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} a regular seal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t6:o2:1 # text = a regular seal 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} he was a white seal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t6:o3:1 # text = he was a white seal 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | he | a white seal | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} no, normal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:618-pg236-part19:t6:o4:1 # text = no, normal 1 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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