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

Oi, what did the monkeys reckon Kaa was called?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monkeys · What happens: reckon, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	7 reckon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monkeys	det
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	nsubj:pass
8	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the monkeys						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	call	past · passive							vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

Big rock hunter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hunter	amod
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunter	compound
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Old snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snake	amod
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Rock dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	compound
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yellow earth-worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worm	amod
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worm	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 earth	punct
4	worm	worm	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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