Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 7: the monkeys sn…

What reason did Baloo give for the failure of the pursuit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Baloo, pursuit · What happens: give, fail

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 failure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 failure	det
8	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pursuit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pursuit	det
11	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 failure	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Baloo					for the failure of the pursuit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme for failure=Asset
2	fail		the pursuit						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

His own clumsy and laboured trot, which slowed the whole chase down badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trot	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trot	amod
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trot	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laboured	cc
5	laboured	labour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trot	amod
6	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slowed	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slowed	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 slowed	nsubj
9	slowed	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chase	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chase	amod
12	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slowed	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	9 slowed	advmod
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 slowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	labour	participle				vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slow	past	His own clumsy laboured trot	the whole chase	badly, down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chase=Patient
3	trot		His = he			nom trot «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His slow and heavy running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 running	nmod:poss
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 running	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 heavy	cc
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slow	conj
5	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run		His = he						nom running «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His own clumsy and laboured trot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trot	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trot	amod
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trot	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laboured	cc
5	laboured	labour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clumsy	conj
6	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	labour	participle							vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trot		His = he						nom trot «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The monkeys were too fast for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fast	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monkeys					for him = he; fast property	tree rules

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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