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

What prohibition did Bagheera impose upon Mowgli concerning livestock?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prohibition · What happens: impose, concern · To what, where: livestock

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 impose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impose	aux
4	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 impose	nsubj
5	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 Mowgli	case
7	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 impose	obl
8	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 impose	advcl
9	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · do-support	what prohibition					upon Mowgli	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	concern	gerund	what prohibition not said here	livestock					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus livestock=Experiencer

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

a strict prohibition against killing, eating, or even chasing any cattle or village calf

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prohibition	det
2	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prohibition	amod
3	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	against	against	SCONJ	_	5 killing	mark
5	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 prohibition	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 killing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chasing	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 chasing	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 chasing	advmod
11	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 prohibition	acl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 cattle	det
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chasing	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 calf	cc
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calf	compound
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cattle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kill	gerund	a strict prohibition not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	gerund	a strict prohibition not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chase	gerund	a strict prohibition not said here	any cattle or village calf	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

prohibition against killing or eating any cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	against	against	SCONJ	_	3 killing	mark
3	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 prohibition	acl
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 eating	cc
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 killing	conj
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cattle	det
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	gerund	prohibition not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	eat	gerund	prohibition not said here	any cattle					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a ban on hunting cows and bulls in the fields of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ban	det
2	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cows	case
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cows	compound
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ban	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bulls	cc
7	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cows	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 fields	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fields	det
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cows	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fields	nmod

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

Option 4

never kill the village herd or calves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 kill	advmod
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herd	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herd	compound
5	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 calves	cc
7	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 herd	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	imperative	you not said here	the village herd or calves					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme

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