Exam question 2 · The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, part 10: Kaa scares of…
Upon what part of the city does Mowgli remain confined at the conclusion of this passage?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, confine, conclude · To what, where: Mowgli, conclusion, passage
This is exam question 2 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 confined | aux:pass |
| 10 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 does | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 conclusion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conclusion | det |
| 13 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confined | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 passage | det |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conclusion | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | upon what part of the city | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | confine | infinitive · passive | Mowgli | the conclusion of this passage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conclude | this passage | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 summerhouse roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roof | det |
| 2 | summerhouse | summerhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roof | compound |
| 3 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The broken dome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dome | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dome | amod |
| 3 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
The dark underground tanks beneath the broken city wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tanks | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tanks | amod |
| 3 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tanks | amod |
| 4 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wall | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | compound |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tanks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The old water tanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tanks | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tanks | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tanks | compound |
| 4 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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