Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…
Which creature offered a fat bull in exchange for the life of the cub?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: offer · To what, where: fat bull, exchange
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bull | amod |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 exchange | case |
| 8 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cub | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cub | det |
| 14 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | which creature | a fat bull | exchange | for the life of the cub goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent bull=Theme for life=Goal |
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
Shere Khan the Tiger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shere | Shere | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tiger | det |
| 4 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shere | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bagheera the Black Panther
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Panther | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Panther | compound |
| 4 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bagheera | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bagheera the Black Panther, who spoke for the cub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Panther | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Panther | compound |
| 4 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bagheera | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cub | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cub | det |
| 10 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Bagheera | for the cub | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Bagheera the Black Panther of the jungle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Panther | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Panther | compound |
| 4 | Panther | Panther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bagheera | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jungle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jungle | det |
| 7 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Panther | nmod |
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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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