Test 11 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 6: Baloo teaches Mowg…

Nan says Bagheera's eyes were proper hard, what was the stone they looked like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, eyes · What happens: say, be, look · To what, where: eyes, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eyes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Bagheera	case
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hard	cop
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stone	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 stone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stone	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eyes	conj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stone	acl:relcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	15 looked	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan	Bagheera's eyes and the stone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eye=Topic
2	is	past	Bagheera's eyes and the stone not said here		hard, properly property	tree rules
3	is a	past	Bagheera's eyes and the stone	the stone		tree rules
4	look	past	eyes = eye	the stone not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=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

A green stone like river moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 moss	case
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moss	compound
6	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stone	nmod

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

Option 2

Onyx

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onyx	Onyx	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Dark polished emerald of the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 polished	nsubj
2	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 polished	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cave	det
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emerald	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	past	Dark	emerald of the cave					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent emerald=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jade	jade	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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