Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

To what purpose did the Bandar-log desire to retain Mowgli?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: do, retain · To what, where: Bandar log desire, Mowgli

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desire	det
6	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 desire	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Bandar	punct
8	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 desire	compound
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 retain	mark
11	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 desire	acl
12	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 retain	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	purpose	the Bandar log desire					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality
2	retain	to-infinitive	purpose not said here	Mowgli					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

To teach them the weaving of sticks for shelter in their trees and the ground

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teach	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weaving	det
5	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teach	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sticks	case
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weaving	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 shelter	case
9	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sticks	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trees	nmod:poss
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ground	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		the weaving of sticks for shelter	them = they	sticks's trees and the ground			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient weaving=Topic
2	weave			sticks for shelter					nom weaving «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To teach them the weaving of sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teach	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weaving	det
5	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teach	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sticks	case
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weaving	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		the weaving of sticks	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient weaving=Topic
2	weave			sticks					nom weaving «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

To make him teach them the weaving of sticks so they can build shelter together

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teach	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weaving	det
7	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teach	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sticks	case
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weaving	nmod
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 build	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 build	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 build	aux
13	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	advcl
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 build	obj
15	together	together	ADV	_	13 build	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	infinitive	him = he not said here	the weaving of sticks	them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient weaving=Topic
3	build	can	sticks = stick	shelter		together property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shelter=Product
4	weave			sticks			nom weaving «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

To make him their weaver of sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 weaver	nmod:poss
5	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 sticks	case
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weaver	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		their weaver of sticks	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary weaver=Product

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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