Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…

By what mode did the Pack Council identify each cub presented before it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mode, Pack Council · What happens: do, identify, present · To what, where: cub

This is exam question 3 of lesson 601 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over the man-cub and a hearing at the Council Rock» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Council	det
6	Pack	Pack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Council	compound
7	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 identify	nsubj
8	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cub	det
10	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 identify	obj
11	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cub	acl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 presented	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	mode			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	identify	present	the Pack Council	each cub		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cub=Theme
3	present	participle		each cub not said here	before Council	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Inspection by the wolves, who looked carefully at each cub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inspection	inspection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 wolves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Inspection	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 cub	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cub	det
11	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Inspection by the wolves					at each cub; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cub=Theme
2	inspect		the wolves						nom inspection «act transitive»: by=agent

Option 2

By a secret mark each wolf wore upon the face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 mark	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mark	det
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	compound
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	obl
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	nsubj
7	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 face	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 face	det
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	each wolf					by a secret mark; upon the face	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By the wolves' howls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 howls	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 howls	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 wolves	case
5	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl		the wolves						nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

By their smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 smell	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 smell	nmod:poss
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		their = they						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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