Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…
On which ledge did the two searchers discover the serpent Kaa?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two searchers · What happens: do, discover · To what, where: ledge, serpent
This is exam question 1 of lesson 607 «The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera seek Kaa's help, then learn Mowgli has been taken to the Cold Lairs» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 ledge | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 ledge | det |
| 3 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 searchers | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 searchers | nummod |
| 7 | searchers | searcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 discover | nsubj |
| 8 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 serpent | det |
| 10 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discover | obj |
| 11 | Kaa | Kaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 serpent | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which ledge | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discover | present | the two searchers | the serpent | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic |
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
A dark pit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pit | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pit | amod |
| 3 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A sunny tree branch above the trail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 2 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 branch | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 branch | compound |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 trail | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trail | det |
| 7 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 branch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A flat stone near the river crossing
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 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 crossing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crossing | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossing | compound |
| 7 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A warm ledge in the afternoon sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ledge | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ledge | amod |
| 3 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sun | compound |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ledge | nmod |
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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