Exam question 1 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…

Which creature is described as having stopped the Monkey-People by the means of a single hissing word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: the · What happens: describe, have, stop, mean · To what, where: creature, Monkey People

This is exam question 1 of lesson 609 «The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares off the Monkey-People while Mowgli stays trapped» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 described	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 People	det
9	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 People	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Monkey	punct
11	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 stopped	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 means	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 means	nsubj
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 word	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 word	amod
18	hissing	hissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 word	compound
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which creature		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past		the Monkey People		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality
4	mean	present	the		of a single hissing word	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Kaa, the python

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 python	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 python	det
4	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kaa	appos

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

Option 2

Bagheera, the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bagheera	Bagheera	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bagheera	appos

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

Option 3

Baloo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baloo	baloo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Kaa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	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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