Exam question 4 · The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, part 8: Baloo and Bagheera…

By what principal means did Kaa overpower his prey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal, Kaa · What happens: mean, overpower · To what, where: prey

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 overpower	obl
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 overpower	aux
6	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 overpower	nsubj
7	overpower	overpower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 prey	nmod:poss
9	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 overpower	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 overpower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	principal						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	overpower	past · do-support	Kaa	Kaa's prey					tree rules

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

His sharp claws

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	3 claws	nmod:poss
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claws	amod
3	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His strong hug

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	3 hug	nmod:poss
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hug	amod
3	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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