Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 2: a fight over t…
Bagheera offered a bull, yeah? How big a bull?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bagheera · What happens: offer · To what, where: bull
This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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
Sentence 1: Bagheera offered a bull, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bagheera | Bagheera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bull | det |
| 4 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 offered | punct |
| 6 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 offered | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | Bagheera | a bull | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bull=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: How big a bull?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bull | det |
| 4 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 big | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
a small one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
two lean ones, long dead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 ones | nummod |
| 2 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | amod |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dead | amod |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a fat one, newly killed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| 5 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 6 killed | advmod |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | participle | a fat one not said here | newly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a fat bull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 2 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bull | amod |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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