Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…
Which creatures seized Mowgli and carried him through the treetops?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creatures · What happens: seize, carry · To what, where: Mowgli, treetops
This is exam question 1 of lesson 606 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys snatch Mowgli and swing off with him through the treetops» 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 creatures | det |
| 2 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carried | cc |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 treetops | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 treetops | det |
| 10 | treetops | treetop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | which creatures | Mowgli | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mowgli=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | which creatures not said here | Mowgli | the treetops | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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
The two strongest of the Bandar-log
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strongest | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 strongest | nsubj |
| 3 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 log | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 6 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 log | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bandar | punct |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strongest | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two of the monkey troop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 troop | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 troop | det |
| 4 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 troop | compound |
| 5 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Two | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The two strongest of the Bandar-log, swinging from the high vines together
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strongest | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 strongest | nsubj |
| 3 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 log | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 6 | Bandar | Bandar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 log | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bandar | punct |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strongest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swinging | punct |
| 10 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 strongest | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 vines | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vines | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vines | amod |
| 14 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swinging | obl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 swinging | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | gerund | the high vines | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from vine=Trajectory |
Option 4
The two biggest monkeys of the troop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkeys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 monkeys | nummod |
| 3 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 monkeys | amod |
| 4 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 troop | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 troop | det |
| 7 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monkeys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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