Exam question 1 · Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the P…

Which character, having been denied the boy, expresses his displeasure through prolonged vocal protest during the night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character · What happens: deny, express, prolong, displease · To what, where: boy, displeasure, prolonged vocal protest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 602 «Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 3: Mowgli joins the Pack, grows up, and learns that Shere Khan is his enemy» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expresses	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 denied	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 denied	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 denied	aux:pass
6	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 character	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 character	punct
10	expresses	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 displeasure	nmod:poss
12	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expresses	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 protest	case
14	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 protest	amod
15	vocal	vocal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 protest	amod
16	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expresses	obl
17	during	during	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expresses	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 expresses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	deny	gerund · perfect · passive	which character not said here	the boy			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: boy=Eventuality
2	express	present	which character	character's displeasure	prolonged vocal protest	night	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent displeasure=Theme
3	prolong	participle					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
4	displease		character				nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

Shere Khan

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

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Father Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the old grey wolf Akela of the Pack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wolf	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Pack	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pack	det
8	Pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wolf	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Bagheera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	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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