Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives…

Which individual is designated by Mowgli as the recipient of his farewell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mowgli · What happens: designate · To what, where: individual

This is exam question 4 of lesson 604 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 5: Mowgli drives the wolves off with fire, beats Shere Khan, and leaves the jungle in tears» 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 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 designated	aux:pass
4	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Mowgli	case
6	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 designated	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 recipient	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 recipient	det
9	recipient	recipient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designated	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 farewell	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 farewell	nmod:poss
12	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recipient	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 designated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	designate	present · passive	Mowgli	which individual				as the recipient of Mowgli's farewell	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme as recipient=Attribute

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

His mother, the she-wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wolf	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 she	punct
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	appos

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

Option 2

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 panther	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 panther	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 panther	amod
5	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bagheera	appos

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

Option 3

Father Wolf, the old hunter

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hunter	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunter	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunter	amod
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Father	appos

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

Option 4

Mother Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	appos

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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