Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…
With reference to the passage, which character is the principal instructor of Mowgli in the Law of the Jungle?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: character · What happens: be · To what, where: principal instructor, Law
This is exam question 1 of lesson 605 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowgli the Master Words, and Mowgli boasts of a monkey tribe» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 passage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 instructor | punct |
| 7 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 8 character | det |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 instructor | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 instructor | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 instructor | det |
| 11 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 instructor | amod |
| 12 | instructor | instructor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passage | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mowgli | case |
| 14 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 instructor | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Law | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Law | det |
| 17 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 instructor | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Jungle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Jungle | det |
| 20 | Jungle | Jungle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 instructor | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reference | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | which character | the principal instructor | the Law | of Mowgli; of the Jungle | tree rules |
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
Akela, the gray wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akela | Akela | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wolf | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 4 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wolf | amod |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Akela | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Baloo, the brown bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baloo | baloo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | amod |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Baloo | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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.
Option 4
Hathi, the wild elephant of the jungle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hathi | Hathi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 elephant | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 elephant | amod |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hathi | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elephant | 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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