--- title: how long did kotick take going back home — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics description: how long did kotick take going back home Test 8 · ★ of lesson 619 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a safe island and wins a fight for the seals» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/619-pg236-part20/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/) / [The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/619-pg236-part20/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a s… how long did kotick take going back home **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kotick · **What happens:** take back, go back This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 619 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 20: Kotick finds a safe island and wins a fight for the seals» 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/619-pg236-part20/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:619-pg236-part20:t8:1 # text = how long did kotick take going back home 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 kotick kotick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 obj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take back** | past · do-support | kotick | | | | | home, long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | 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} like two days, lol ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:619-pg236-part20:t8:o1:1 # text = like two days, lol 1 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 lol lol INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} six days, not swimming slow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:619-pg236-part20:t8:o2:1 # text = six days, not swimming slow 1 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 6 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **swim** | gerund | six days *not said here* | | | | | slow *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} six days, with a rest or two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:619-pg236-part20:t8:o3:1 # text = six days, with a rest or two 1 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} one day, I think ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:619-pg236-part20:t8:o4:1 # text = one day, I think 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | day | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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