Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

Of which creature did the Bandar-log stand most in fear, according to Baloo?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bandar log · What happens: do, stand, accord · To what, where: fear

This is exam question 2 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 creature	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	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	8 log	det
6	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 log	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Bandar	punct
8	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	nsubj
9	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 stand	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 fear	case
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Baloo	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 Baloo	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	Baloo	Baloo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stand	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			of which creature	tree rules
2	stand	present	the Bandar log	fear	accord Baloo	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fear=Location
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Tabaqui

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tabaqui	Tabaqui	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Bagheera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Akela the Grey Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Akela	Akela	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
3	Grey	Grey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wolf	compound
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Akela	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kaa the Rock Snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Snake	det
3	Rock	Rock	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Snake	compound
4	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kaa	appos

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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