Exam question 3 · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

To what place had the monkeys conveyed Mowgli, as reported by Rann?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: place, monkeys · What happens: have, convey, report · To what, where: Mowgli

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conveyed	obl
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkeys	det
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conveyed	nsubj
7	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mowgli	Mowgli	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reported	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 reported	mark
11	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 conveyed	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Rann	case
13	Rann	Rann	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 reported	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	convey	past	the monkeys	Mowgli		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mowgli=Topic to what=Recipient
3	report	participle	the monkeys not said here		by Rann	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: 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

The ruined temple by the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 temple	det
2	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 temple	amod
3	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 temple	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Council Rock beyond the far ravine and river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rock	det
2	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rock	compound
3	Rock	Rock	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 ravine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ravine	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ravine	amod
7	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Rock	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 river	cc
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ravine	conj

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

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

The Cold Lairs beyond the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lairs	det
2	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lairs	amod
3	Lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Lairs	nmod

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

Option 4

The deep Bandar-log trees across the wide flooded river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
3	Bandar	Bandar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trees	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Bandar	punct
5	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	compound
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	11 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 river	amod
10	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 river	amod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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