Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

By what means did Rann come to know the route of the captors?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rann · What happens: mean, come, know · To what, where: route

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 route	det
10	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 captors	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 captors	det
13	captors	captor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 route	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · do-support	Rann		tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive	Rann not said here	the route of the captors	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer route=Stimulus

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

By keeping watch from the sky and following the trail through the trees below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 keeping	mark
2	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 following	cc
8	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeping	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trail	det
10	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trees	det
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 following	obl
14	below	below	ADV	_	13 trees	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		watch		the sky			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer watch=Beneficiary from sky=Eventuality
2	follow	gerund		the trail		the trees			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme through tree=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By keeping watch and following the trail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 keeping	mark
2	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 following	cc
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeping	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trail	det
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 following	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		watch					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
2	follow	gerund		the trail					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

From the sky he saw their branches move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 sky	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sky	det
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sky	acl:relcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 branches	nmod:poss
7	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	obj
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	their branches					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Stimulus
2	move	present				the sky			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from sky=Trajectory

Option 4

By keeping watch and following the trail of the monkeys all the way to their camp

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 keeping	mark
2	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 following	cc
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 keeping	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trail	det
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 following	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 monkeys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkeys	det
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trail	nmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 camp	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 camp	nmod:poss
16	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		watch				to monkeys's camp; all way obl:unmarked	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
2	follow	gerund		the trail of the monkeys					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme

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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